Government

United Party Would Retain Support from Most Current CA (87%) and PC (78%) Supporters and Could Attract One-Quarter of Current Liberal (27%) and NDP (26%) Supporters

Voters say Eves' Tories have Ontario on the Right Track (59%) Up from 54% in February, 2002

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57% Say Inadequate Funding By Provincial Government, Not Waste And Inefficiency By School Board (38%), Is The Fault For Deficits
But, 79% Say Province Should Assign Auditors To Look into School Board Books and Locate Ways to Balance School Board Budgets--With 75% Saying They Would Believe an Auditor's Indications on How to Balance Budget

Half (50%) Say Prime Minister Should Be Allowed to Stay on for His 18 Month Swan Song, While 46% Believe He Should Leave Immediately
Just Under Half (46%) Believe Motive to Stay an Additional 18 Months is to Implement Policy Agenda, While 42% Believe it is Just to Frustrate Leadership Aspirations of Rival, Paul Martin

Public and Decided Liberal Voters Impressions of Paul Martin, John Manley, Allan Rock and Shelia Copps

Three-Quarters (73%) Believe Important Government Business Has Taken Second Place to Internal Liberal Dispute
A Majority (55%) Blame Prime Minister for Division in Liberal Party - 23% Blame Paul Martin
Two-Thirds (64%) Say Prime Minister Clinging On for Power's Sake Alone
Liberals (41%) Drop 5 Points Since Mid July But Still Retain Lead

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Almost as Many Describe John Paul II as a Peacemaker (79%) and a Force for Good in the World (79%)