Reply #5: Really not good news

[Bragi]

Sorry folks, but the fact that they are exactly where they were at in the last elecetion doesn't excite me with glee about the chance of stopping Harper from getting a majority.

So far, Harper has renounced Kyoto, put Canada on the side of the warmongers in Afghanistan and the Middle East, negotiated a softwood deal that promotes the American dream, cancelled the national child care program, trashed the funding deal for aboriginals, picked a Rovian fight with the national media to isolate and discredit them, etc. etc. and he hasn't lost a point.

Given that Harper only needs the support of less than 4 in 10 voters to get a majority (because of the NDP-Lib vote splitting of the centre-left) it looks to me like Canada is well on the way to 6-10 years of rule by neocons who are quite farther to the right than any previous national government in post-war Canada.

If anyone has any compelling arguments as to why this won't happen, I would be pleased to hear them, since they elude me at this point.

- B