The Tories are going to be a hard sell in Quebec, though, because they're perceived to be dominated by the hard-right Reform wing (which has it's base in the Western Provinces) whereas Quebecers are by in large more left-of-centre... the only real policy similarity between the Tory and Bloc voters is on devolution. There's still a wide disparity between the two on social spending, environment, gay marriage, and foreign policy. Harper is going to have a hard balancing act to lean far enough to the left to attract more Quebec votes but not so far that he alienates his base in the West.

*L* Interrogate away... like I say, this is a rare chance for me to talk Canadian politics on here. We've only really got two major national papers, the Globe and Mail has more of a Liberal bias while the National Post has a more Conservative bias, but they both give a pretty solid picture of our politics. It's true that we don't have as many national papers as you do in the UK, but don't forget that we've got about half your population in a country about 40 times as large - so we're a lot more spread out, and because of that a lot more of newspaper coverage is more localized in nature.