Liberals lead dips for 1st time in Canada election as Tories gain: poll - National | Globalnews.ca

The Liberals continue to lead the federal election race at the halfway point of the campaign, a new poll suggests, but the Conservatives have narrowed the gap.The latest Ipsos poll exclusively for Global News shows 42 per cent of Canadians surveyed would vote for the Liberals, down four points from last week and the first time since the election began that the party has lost ground. The Conservatives are up two points at 36 per cent.“Whatever momentum the Liberals have had has declined,” said Darrell Bricker, CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs.“It’s been the only good news that the Conservatives have had since Mark Carney became the leader of the Liberal Party. … Whether it will hold up or not is another question.”Eleven per cent of decided voters surveyed said they would back the New Democrats, down one point from last week. The Green Party also fell one point, to two per cent, while the Bloc Quebecois stayed steady at six per cent support nationally, or 25 per cent of Quebec voters.Story co...