• PM faces challenges in mandate, study says

    Posted by: Navigator

    Posted on: October 30th, 2008

From today’s Toronto Star:

A new Conservative cabinet to be unveiled today faces “significant governing challenges” because Canadians are in a sour post-election mood, with no appetite for partisan bickering and little tolerance for deficit spending, according to a new study.

Ensight Canada Inc., an Ottawa-based firm of lobbyists and consultants, conducted its own five-city post-election series of focus groups on why people voted they way they did. It found high and conflicting expectations for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, even among his own supporters.

Read the full story here.