Powercorp and today's Ekos poll: a vested interest in Rae?

While the sun sets on the delegate selection meetings, there will other days between October and December to consider who should be leading the Liberal party.

Powercorperation who is behind Bob Rae in this race owns Gesca Ltée, which holds a 100 per cent interest in the Montréal daily newspaper La Presse (which co-sponsored today’s poll along with the Star) and six other daily newspapers in the provinces of Québec and Ontario. To what extent do we trust the media and their polls when some have a vested interest in showing trends in a certain way at a crucial time? What will they want from a Bob Rae led Liberal party?

I think I am going to pull out a copy of C. Wright Mills' The Power Elites tonight in order to try to understand all of this better and I will get back to you. I recommend the same for those interested in having a better understanding of what information should be trusted and what information should not in this race where some have profit and influence as their vested interest.

All of this is in spite external mechanisms of accountability, such as the Lobbyist Registration Act and newly adopted campaign-financing rules. Is it that hard to shake the influence of the large corporation?