Casting doubt on polls

According to a recent Ipsos poll, 72% of Canadians say they are "over-taxed,” a big jump of five points since 2023.

Two-thirds said they were dissatisfied with how Ottawa spends their money and 77% said their taxes were too high for the services they receive.

Those are pretty hefty numbers. It’s typically difficult to get 77% of Canadians to even agree that the sky is blue.

Early on Easter Sunday morning, when most Canadians were occupied with family and/or religious ceremonies, (Liberal Leader) Mark Carney released his fiscal plan (party platform). He is promising hundreds of billions of dollars of new spending with no cuts, no reduction in programs, subsidies or trimming of any fat.

All of that money will have to come from new taxes and/or new debt. Additionally, he has promised to spend $2 trillion more—an additional $80 billion per year—on net-zero between now and 2050. All that money just to bring global CO2 emissions down by a miniscule 1.5%, thus producing zero benefit to the world.

Our federal debt is already $1.4 trillion (doubling in only nine years and requiring $1 billion every week just in interest payments) with taxes and inflation already crushing millions. How are we supposed to pay more?

If you believe the polls this week, the Liberals are ahead in the election campaign. How is a thoughtful person supposed to reconcile those results? Do voters really think the same federal departments, with the same employees and with the same cabinet ministers in charge are suddenly going to magically start spending our money more wisely than those same people did over the past 10 years because the Liberals have a new leader with a PhD from a fancy university?

Did the 77% lie to Ipsos, are they lying this week to election pollsters or both?

So, which poll is a someone supposed to believe, because they obviously both can't be true. No one can truly complain about the last ten years and then re-elect the same people.

Please connect the dots and do your own research, rather than listening to the hysteria on Facebook and in much of the mainstream media.

Fool me once, shame on you. Food me twice, shame on me. But fool me four times?

Lloyd Vinish, Kelowna