ANALYSIS: Liberals May Hope for Boost in Polls as Early Budget Items Unveiled

Published on April 10, 2024

Never before has a government orchestrated such a media blitz ahead of its budget announcement. And as the Liberals unveil their 2024 budget items one by one—each with its own press conference—they have their sights set on voter polls and the coming election, says political science professor Nelson Wiseman. Although the election is due by October next year, it could come sooner. “The Liberals know they’re down in the polls, and they’ve decided, ‘Let’s have a full-court press this year and have all our ministers out there making announcements all over the country every day and flooding the media,'” Mr. Wiseman, professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, told The Epoch Times....

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