OTTAWA/TORONTO (Reuters) - voting Canadian Monday in one of their most unpredictable elections ever, it could just as easily hand the conservatives a solid grip power or leave them so low soon lose Office.
The center-right conservatives, who ruled the Canada since early 2006, began the campaign with an advance in good health and said that they needed a majority of seats in the House of Commons, leaving them to concentrate on economic recovery and reduce taxes.
Over the past two weeks, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has seen his advantage decrease at the an extraordinarily effective campaign by the Democrats of the left, a labour party which has never held power in the Canada.
NDP biggest surprise campaign, "The Globe and Mail said in its history for the election of lead Monday questioned if the Harper Government could obtain a majority government."
An editorial in the National Post urged Canadians to "Get out and vote," stressing that the participation will be particularly key to the party that draws support both among young people who sometimes do not make it to the polls.
Casting side last in custody all Sunday, the last day of the campaign for the parliamentary election, the new democratic party leader Jack Layton predicted victory for the first time.
"I want you to create queues in the ballot box, my friends, because we can defeat Stephen Harper," he said at a rally.
The promise of new Democrats to increase the corporate tax, limit the amount of interest banks may impose on credit card balances and to introduce a CAP and trade system to reduce gases blamed for global warming greenhouse.
Harper says that the result would be a disaster to a tine when the Canada, the largest single provider of the energy of the United States - nicely is overcoming the global crisis.
"A New Democrat Government means higher prices, smaller pay cheques, a weaker economy", he said at a rally Sunday.
Harper won the minorities in 2006 and 2008, requiring him to cooperate with the opposition parties to pass budgets and other major legislation. The Conservatives currently hold 143 of 308 seats in the House of Commons.
The first combative Minister said if he gets another minority, the Liberals and new Democrats will unite quickly pre-empt and create what he called a dangerous coalition.
A survey of rolling three days by Nanos Research later developed Sunday public support for the conservatives to 37.1% with Democrats to 31.6%. The Liberals, who launched the campaign in second place, were at 22.5%.
The Liberals and new Democrats are competing for the same centre-left voters, and if the vote were divided, Nanos poll shows that the result could mean a small majority of Harper. That will ensure a fixed term of four years in power.
An Ekos poll also released late Sunday, said that the outcome would be much more closely. He had the Conservatives at 33.9%, new Democrats to 31.2% and the Liberals to 21.0%. No opinion polls are allowed on election day.
(Additional reporting by Jordan Pav.) (Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
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