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Poll suggests uneasy Liberal majority

By BRIAN LAGHI and CAMPBELL CLARK
From Saturday's Globe and Mail

Ottawa — Canada's Liberals appear to be creeping toward political recovery in Quebec as Prime Minister Paul Martin hit the unofficial campaign trail yesterday against the backdrop of a new poll showing the makings of a more comfortable majority.

However, the Globe and Mail/CTV survey also shows the Liberals are facing a volatile national electorate whose support it can't take for granted. And while the party continued the flurry of pre-election announcements, much of the business of government continued to grind to a halt in Ottawa, increasingly replaced with the clamour of electioneering leading up to the vote.

The new survey, conducted by polling firm Ipsos-Reid from Tuesday to Thursday, shows the Liberals down slightly in national voting intentions, but up in Quebec, and winning more seats nationally thanks to shifting loyalties in the regions across the country.

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