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By comparison, when asked whether they had positive, negative or no impressions either way of the other leaders, just 19 per cent said NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair had left a positive impression on them, followed by interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae at 18 per cent. While Harper's popularity " is a little lower than what you would expect, it's all relative," said Ipsos- Reid CEO Darrell Bricker. " It's all ( about), how do you compare to your major competitors? And obviously ( Harper) is pretty well ahead." Harper is a " well- known quantity to Canadians right now," Bricker added. " There's not a lot new that they have to learn about him." The real news, he said, is Mulcair " isn't taking off" and still needs to establish his personality and his appeal with the Canadian public. " Mulcair, in spite of all of the speculation in Ottawa about how things have taken off for him since the leadership contest, I just don't see it," Bricker said. " The challenge for Mulcair is to stand up and get defined." Sixty per cent of those surveyed said they had no impression either way of the NDP leader. However, only 20 per cent had negative impressions of Mulcair - substantially fewer than the 48 per cent who had negative impressions of Harper. Overall, a majority of Canadians agree either strongly ( 19 per cent) or somewhat ( 38 per cent) that they consider the Liberal party to be a " party of the past, not a party of the future," according to the poll. Among Liberal supporters, 21 per cent believe their own party is a party of the past. The poll comes as Liberals mull allowing interim Leader Rae to run for the party's permanent leadership. In accepting the interim leadership following the Liberals' third- place showing in last year's federal election, Rae agreed to a stipulation laid out by the board that he would not run for the permanent leadership. Despite the promise, the board is widely expected to pave the way for him to run when it meets next week. More interesting is whether any Liberalleadershiphopefulcampaigns on a ticket of supporting a merger of the left, " because clearly a majority of Liberal party supporters think it's a good idea," Bricker said. Sixty- four per cent of Liberal supporters and 57 per cent of NDP voters said they " strongly" or " somewhat" support their parties merging into a single party. Canadians as a whole seem divided on whether a new Liberal leader will make a difference: half ( 52 per cent) agree that regardless of who the party chooses as its next leader, they have " pretty much written off the Liberals." - Postmedia News Unite- left support grows Favoured by most Grit, NDP backers By Sharon Kirkey MONTREAL - A weekend that brought Montreal's social unrest to the international stage ended Sunday with police clamping down on an attempt to disrupt the city's Grand Prix Formula One race. Anti- capitalists and students upset about tuition increases held demonstrations throughout the four- day event, marking the arrival of the world's premier auto- racing series. The protests gave visitors a taste of the dramatic scenes - sometimes joyful, sometimes violent - locals have seen for months. Many of those scenes played out just steps away from a huge, non- stop party on Crescent Street for the race- car festivities, considered the biggest annual tourist event in Canada. Every night, a group of students and anti- capitalists descended on the popular nightclub strip to protest the event. On several occasions there were violent clashes between protesters and riot police, with tourists caught in the middle. " It's been a tough one this year," Grand Prix promoter Fran�ois Dumontier told reporters following the race. " I think we had a good weekend overall here. We weren't perturbed despite all threats, people had no trouble getting onto the site, and the warm temperature helped our attendance." Dumontier admitted ticket sales to the race, which pumps about $ 100 million into the local economy, were down by five or six per cent. - The Canadian Press CALGARY - A representative for the company whose pipeline spilled hundreds of thousands of litres of oil into an Alberta river suggests there were two strokes of luck that kept the problem from being worse. Stephen Bart, the vice- president of crude- oil operations for Plains Midstream Canada, said the first piece of good luck was the pipeline wasn't flowing at the time. Bart said the second was the Red Deer River was swollen with recent rain, which washed the oil to the Gleniffer Reservoir where it can be more easily contained by booms, leaving only localized pockets of oil on the river. " While there is shoreline along the river that has been impacted, it has been confined largely to a number of these localized areas, that when we get cordoned off, we can address more fully," Bart told reporters at a news conference on Sunday. Plains Midstream Canada estimates between 1,000 and 3,000 barrels of oil spilled Thursday. There's no word yet on what caused the leak, but Bart told reporters the affected section of pipeline ran underneath the river. Bart said there are people on foot who are looking for wildlife that may have been affected by the spill, but he said there have been few confirmed reports of injured animals so far. He said some of the people on foot patrols have noise devices that can be used to scare birds away from landing on oil- affected areas. Peter Hodson, a biology professor at Queen's University and an expert on the effects of oil spills on fish and wildlife, said it's promising that few struggling or injured animals have been spotted. He said it's also good news for fish if the oil managed to get to the lake quickly before being churned up in the river. But Hodson says the fact the water level in the river was high means grass and other land that's farther up on the riverbank is more likely to have been coated with oil. " That means some animals, particularly the ducks that are nesting on the banks, and some of the animals like muskrat and beaver that use the banks quite a bit, may be that much more exposed to oil," Hodson says. Gleniffer Lake provides the water supply for the City of Red Deer and is a popular recreation area for fishing and boating. The company has been providing bottled water to people who draw their drinking water directly from the river and the reservoir. The City of Red Deer indicated on its website it didn't expect the spill to cause any problems. Alberta Environment officials have been telling people to stay away from the water. Bart said the booms have contained the oil to the western tip of the reservoir. " Our goal, obviously, is to preserve the water quality and drinkingwater quality and minimize the impact to wildlife, and get the spill cleaned up and the water and land restored as quickly as possible," he said. - The Canadian Press Global focus on Que. unrest Pipeline spill could have been worse: exec Wasn't flowing, river was swollen PETER MCCABE / THE CANADIAN PRESS Police use pepper spray and fight with protesters in Montreal Sunday. A_ 08_ Jun- 11- 12_ FP_ 01. indd A8 6/ 10/ 12 8: 47: 44 PM ;