[QUOTE=sanjuro_ronin;1062775]I don’t have that many issues with Harper, he’s a conservative and does what conservatives do.
Granted that outside of the GST reduction I don’t recall anything else he has done, but hey, at least he did that after promising to do that, which is far more than the Liberals did when they kept saying they would.
I would enjoy having a liberal worth voting for.[/QUOTE]
I don’t regard Harper as a conservative. He’s not. He’s a reformist or a neo-con at best. He is not fiscally responsible and has a finance minister who just sold us a 50 biullion dollar deficit. That’s hardly what I would deem “conservative”.
Harper’s strength is in policy implementation of law and order.
this is why he gives a billion dollars to police forces so that he can hold a meeting downtown in a major city that never votes for him and he did that in spite for spite and to spite that city in which he was born and in which he cannot get an elected seat in. He’s a petty man in that sense.
His reduction of the GST has been offset by his push to re-implement the more costly hst in provinces that are willing to jump that train. Ontario (the most populated) and BC (the most populated western province.
His record on the afghan war is fairly dismal and he doesn’t seem to have vision or direction there and is content to let NATO and generals run the show and just report to him as opposed to understanding that Canadians do not like participating in such vague and seemingly meaningless military adventures halfway round the world with little justification remaining to actually even be there anymore.
he has a minority gov in parliament and the only reason for that is that he is the devil we know. That’s what it comes down to. People don’t trust Iggy because despite his intelligence and ability, he is regarded as an outsider and in reality, he really is. He was the worst idea the liberals could have forwarded yet! Had he actually been elected party leader, instead of appointed, that would have way more clout with voters and particularly Liberals themselves.
Then there is the BLOC which exists only in Quebec and was created by ex liberal party members actually (who are now once again liberals) in an effort to maintain Canada as a federation by giving Quebec special recognition and powers over it’s own governance so they would stop trying to separate all the time. That’s why the BLOC is there.
Then we have the NDP, hey 1bad, you wanna see real socialists in a western liberal democracy, these are your guys, specifically Jack Layton. When we have Layton up here and we are familiar with him, we all collectively think that people who call Obama a socialist are dumb or something or don’t know wtf they are talking about because Obama ain’t no socialist by any measure if you want to compare what a socialist agenda looks like under the NDP vs Obama’s white house admin and their policies.
Obama is practically a fascist capitalist by comparison. seriously, stop making yourselves look silly on this point.
anyway…</rant> 
social and political activism is needed for a healthy society in my opinion and we don’t have enough of it. We have too much complacency and fat assedness going on. That’s the real problem. We just let them.