Federal voting intentions were polled by EKOS between Oct. 14 and Oct. 20.Federal voting intentions were polled by EKOS between Oct. 14 and Oct. 20. (EKOS)

The Conservative Party maintained its substantial advantage over the Liberal Party in the latest weekly poll from EKOS.

According to the latest poll, which was released exclusively to the CBC, the Conservatives had the support of 38.3 per cent of respondents, down from 40.7 per cent last week.

Liberal support rose to 27.1 per cent from 25.5 per cent.

The NDP rose 0.2 percentage points to 14.5 per cent, while Green Party support grew half a percentage point to 11 per cent.

Support for the Bloc Québécois slipped by 0.1 percentage points to nine per cent.

The latest EKOS poll was conducted by phone between Oct. 14 and Oct. 20. EKOS asked 3,270 Canadians how they would vote were an election held tomorrow. Both landline and cellphone users were included. The results have an error margin of plus or minus 1.7 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

EKOS president Frank Graves said the news of last week was dominated more by the use of Conservative logos on "prop" cheques by MPs at funding announcements than on Liberal attempts to trigger a federal election.

On Tuesday, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff said he was in no hurry to bring down the minority Conservative government.

Speaking at an Ottawa daycare centre, Ignatieff said he wouldn't support the Conservatives on confidence motions, but added that he won't actively pursue attempts to bring them down.