In some other places, gasoline prices have a political impact you can identify and measure.
That isn’t the case in Newfoundland and Labrador.
The reasons? We don’t have anyone doing the research, for one thing.
For another thing, the marketing job that one pollster does like clockwork every quarter is so inaccurate a device that it can’t measure anything but the equivalent of a political tsunami. Even then, it isn’t clear that CRA’s quarterly omnibus could detect it.
And for a third explanation, none of the province’s political parties identify consumer costs as a political issue they want to talk about.
That’s one of the more curious things. Political parties in other places actually talk about things that piss off the average voter. In newfoundland and Labrador, even if we knew that voters were fried about gasoline prices, there’s no party that would likely raise the issue and try to do something about it. This is just a variation of the Echo Chamber theme your humble e-scribbler raised in the last election: the political parties didn’t talk about the issues opinion polls identified as stuff that bothered voters.
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