Dead heat in polls shows fragility of federal Liberals’ majority: pollsters

With the race between the Liberals and Conservatives tied, according to polls, the Grits need to shore up the coalition that won them a majority government in 2015, pollsters say.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, and Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, centre, are polling in a dead heat, as NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, right, could be fighting for his political life in the upcoming by-election in Burnaby South, B.C. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

August 13, 2018

Fourteen months away from the next federal election, polls show the Liberals and Conservatives in a deadlock, and the Liberals have to hold onto their three-pronged coalition to win in 2019, pollsters say. A Nanos poll, released on Aug. 7, shows the Tories and Grits virtually tied, with the Liberal...

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