Reply #2: Ignatief will win with this platform. I work in market research and Canadian middle cless families

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are tapped out financially and frustrated with limited affordable
childcare, user fees and traffic tolls. They will vote for this program.
In Canada we aren't fooled by the Republican mantra of 'personal responsibility'
that Harper has swallowed hook line and sinker. Not surprising because his
political consultants are getting their marching orders from the RNC and
the Religious Right in the US.

I would be very surprised if Harper survives this challenge. Plus Layton seems
to have found some long lost campaign energy.