Last _week’s Gallup preferences of the Canadian electorate at the present point in time tho ugh-provoking conclusions. poll on the _ political leads to some rather: It showed that. 35. per cent of Canadian voters are apparently in favor of repiacing democratic government in this. country by a one-party dictatorship. An opposing democratic government, cent haven’t made up 34 per cent want to retain and the remaining 31 per their minds. Admittedly, the Gallup question and figures were. couched in a slightly differ- ent form, but that’s what they boil down to. Fifty-one per cent of the committed voters, according to the poll, would today re-elect the Liberal Party which has governed Canada . for the past 14 years -- for a . total of 38 years out of the past 50. Disagreeing with them were 27 per cent who want to try their luck with the Conservatives, 18 per cent supporting the NDP and f about four per. cert favoring _ other parties. ' Meanwhile, standing on the sidelines, were the 31 per cent of the electorate who are still undecided -- which explains the rather. more meaningful figures with which I started: - 35% 19% - 12% 3% | 69% 31 Go Liberals......c.ssccccsecees Conservatives..........06 NDP.......cccccewescectooes. Other narties............. Don’ tKMOW.-:sseseseeee a Total electorate anv 100% , ‘their correct proportions, these latest popularity- contest results obviously make somewhat dismal read- ing for Joe Clark and his Conservative followers, the only group capable of provid- ing an alternative govern- ment in Ottawa. To the Tories the most frustrating fact about the present Situation is the dramatic change in Gallup poll for- tunes being temporarily en- joyed by Prime Minister Trudeau and his jaded, fumbling Grit administration solely because of Rene Levesque. Gisplays. Plaza Conservatives. Start your Summer remodelling with a bright new kitchen. Browse through our showroom, over 1,000 sq. ft. of kitchen 15% off cabinot units with a complote kitchen remodelling (your neighborhood kitchen centre) CO-ORDINATED KITCHENS LTD. North Shore 1378 Main St., North Vancouver, between Venice Bakery and Mountain Hwy. Less than nine months ago Gallup showed the Trudeau Liberals trailing with only 28 per cent of committed voters behind them compared to 36 per cent supporting the even rumors of backroom Liberal plots to dump Pierre. and seek a more successful _ - leader. The November 1976 vic- tory of. Levesque’s separatist - party ir Quebec rescued the federal’: Grits’ from this ultimate embarrassment. By March Gallup recorded a sensational turnaround, with Trudeau suddenly claiming. «43 per cent of the committed © vote to Clark’s 30. per ‘cent. Now, with: a. further eight- point advance, ‘the tempta- tion for the Liberal steam-. roller to keep right on rolling ‘and crush the Conservatives |. into dust once and for all at a | snap election must be almost ~ irresistible. CON JOB? Future historians may well describe thé Liberal achieve- ment in the earlier 1977 Gallup polls as one of the | biggest political con jobs on record. The obvious fact of the matter is that relations in {reo estimates 985-7515 LOOKING FOR TRUSTWORTHY) fa.