NDP B.C. strongholds in jeopardy with Liberals, Conservatives in dead heat: Pollster [Video]

A Vancouver-based pollster says some of the federal NDP’s B.C. strongholds could be in jeopardy if current trends hold through election day.

Mario Canseco, president of Research Co., said his latest survey found the two biggest parties in a statistical tie in B.C., with 41 per cent for the Liberals and 39 for the Conservatives. The NDP, he said, had sunk to eight per cent.

The same poll found U.S.-Canada relations had rocketed to the top issue for British Columbians (32 per cent), and that they gave Liberal Leader Mark Carney the edge over Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on handling the economy (56 per cent to 51 per cent respectively).

“You have that one-two punch,” Canseco said.

“What you have is the NDP base very concerned about what is going to happen with the country, really looking into a situation where Pierre Poilievre could form the government and saying to themselves, ‘We might be better off voting …