Bulletin: Liberals uninterested in politics, polls, elections

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Thibault insisted Liberal MPs on the committee are not being driven by electoral considerations. "I have never felt any pressure by anybody other than to get at the bottom of this matter."

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Prime minister denies he is electioneering during Day 1 of Atlantic tour ...Martin has been criss-crossing the country in recent weeks, spending much of his time in Liberal-held ridings that could be vulnerable in the next federal election. But the prime minister has insisted he's not on a pre-election vote hunt. "Until such time that an election is called, I'm going to govern," Martin said later, following a speech to soldiers gathered at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown. "That is my priority."

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Prime Minister Paul Martin's strategists told Liberal MPs yesterday to ignore disappointing public-opinion polls and that they are eager for a "head-to-head contest" with the Conservatives and their "radical, far-right agenda that is consistently out-of-sync with Canadians."... "Over the next few weeks, the Prime Minister will be expanding on his vision for the country and going to work on issues of concern to Canadians, like striking a new health-care agreement with the provinces to secure medicare for a generation," the PMO missive says. "The Prime Minister will have to decide soon when to call an election. He will be basing his decision on the progress he and the government have made on the issues, not what he reads in newspaper polls."