SPECIAL EVENT:

A Panel Discussion on the Results
of the 2006 Federal Election

• Tuesday, January 23, 2006
• National Press Club, 165 Sparks St., Ottawa, ON
• 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Come join in this interesting and educational discussion.

• How did it happen?
• Why did it happen?
• Did the pollsters see it coming?
• What impact did the media have?
• What kind of future does the government have?

Our panel promises to pontificate on all these questions and more.

Free event - please RSVP to Ric Hobbs (rhob@pollara.ca) by Monday at 5 pm to reserve one of the limited spots
It is often said that the only poll that matters is the one on election day. Nonetheless, there was a tremendous amount of polling done before, during and now after the election. After the 2004 election there was considerable commentary on the accuracy of the polls. The CBC eschewed horse race numbers and polls in general. This time, the media commented on polls daily, yet we are still left with the same burning questions.

NIK NANOS
Mr. Nanos is the President of SES Research, one of Canada's leading public opinion research firms. He is the official pollster for CPAC, Canada's Political Channel and also the Osprey Media Group - a chain of 51 newspapers in Ontario. Starting in the spring of 2006, he will be the National President-elect of the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association. Polls conducted by SES Research and Nik's analysis have appeared in virtual all of Canada's major media outlets. They have also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and The Guardian Newspaper in the United Kingdom. For the 2006 Federal Election, the CPAC-SES final election poll was within one-tenth of one percentage point for the four major parties.

DIMITRI PANTAZOPOULOS
Founder and President of Praxicus Public Strategies. A native of Ottawa, Mr. Pantazopoulos has spent his career in political communications, and strategy development, working in the areas of public opinion research, party policy development, and reputation and crisis management campaigns. Mr. Pantazopoulos' most notable current client is the Conservative Party of Canada and its leader Stephen Harper. He has been providing public opinion research and advice to Mr. Harper since 2002, and was the Conservative Party's pollster in the 2004 federal election campaign.

LARRY WELSH
President of Lifeline Communications Group Inc., Mr. Welsh has seen several sides of politics, business and government around Ottawa. He has worked in government relations and communications in the private sector since 1997, served as press secretary to former Reform Party leader Preston Manning, and was chief economics writer at the Ottawa bureau of Canadian Press. Mr. Welsh started his career in journalism at The Standard in his hometown of St. Catharines, Ont., before moving on as a financial journalist at Reuters News Agency and the Toronto Star. Lifeline Communications has provided strategic advice and media analysis services to public and private clients since 1987.

RICHARD JENKINS
Richard Jenkins is Vice President and Corporate Director of Public Opinion Research at TNS Canadian Facts. He has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of British Columbia, and has taught undergraduate and graduate studies at Queen's University in Kingston. Dr. Jenkins has published extensively on elections and public affairs and is the primary spokesperson for media interviews at TNS Canadian Facts.