If the Harper Conservatives were hoping that Trudeau's pot smoking admission would cause some sort of nationwide backlash, they're going to be disappointed.
A new National Post/Forum Research poll — conducted a day after Trudeau admitted to smoking pot after becoming a MP — suggests the revelaion might have actually helped the Liberal leader and his party.
The Liberals have surged to 38% support from voters in the latest Forum Poll for the National Post, while the Conservatives have slipped to 29% and the NDP trail at 22%.
“After a brief dip last month, the Liberals have rebounded, and they now have a substantial lead over the government in the poll. It may be that Liberal policies around marijuana have had something to do with this, but it’s clear Justin Trudeau’s admission of pot use did him no harm,” Forum Research president Lorne Bozinoff said in a statement.
Trudeau made the admission last Thursday in an interview with the Huffington Post just weeks after he said he would like to see marijuana legalized.
On both traditional and social media, he has been lauded for his 'honesty.'
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The Conservatives, on the other hand, have been widely chided by their reaction.
Justice Minister Peter MacKay has been the Tory's lead attack dog on this front.
"This admission of smoking marijuana, breaking the law, doing so knowingly while he was a Member of Parliament, the politics of this are such that there’s an element of hypocrisy of having voted on the record to increase penalties around the same time that he was lighting up. So his credibility is a little up in smoke," MacKay said on Friday, according to CTV News.
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