Destroyer25

It's unreasonable to expect parties to campaign where they have no chance, it would be nice if parties were elected based on what they say they'll do for the country rather than what they'll do for interest groups, but that's seldom how it works. The Conservatives have shown interest in ridings dominated by minorties because they feel that they can win them, and this has proven to be true. Harper has more diverse support than many will accept. Immigrants come here seeking economic opportunities and if the Conservatives did more to make it easier for immigrants to integrate economically they'd consistently get their votes.

The NDP without a doubt will be unable to maintain their current strength. It's pretty obvious that they got to where they are thanks to Jack and Jack alone, it wasn't because Canadians woke up and decided that they like Socialism; although their success in Quebec can be attributed to a degree to similarities between BQ and NDP policy. Jack was an honorable man despite his faults, and although I despised his politics I still have a great deal of respect for him. He wasn't you average politican, although he certainly wasn't above the typical partisan BS and whatnot, he was certainly a better man than most other politians, especially many of Harper's ilk. So, with regard to the next election, I think it's fair to say that the Liberals will certainly regain some strength at the NDP's expense regardless of who they choose. Nobody has any confidence in Mulcair's ability to combat the Conservatives; he's not Jack. All good news for the country, after the next election in 2015 we'll have another 4 years of sustained economic growth and fiscal responsibility.

Are you going to refute my argument or are we just going to debate my use of rhetoric? Perhaps it was hypocritical but I'd rather move on and debate the real issue rather than having a pissing match.

I'm tired of everyone going on about how untrust worthy Harper is, as if he's the devil just waiting for ther perfect moment to unveil his plan for global domination. I't's nothing more than left wing fear mongering, and it works because everyone on the left side of the political spectrum doesn't actually care about the facts. When Harper first got elected everyone was raving about how he was going to ban abortion and ban gay marriage. Well nothing happened, and they made the excuse that he doesn't have a majority so he can't execute his plan. And then he DID get a majority, and all hell broke lose in the lefty camp as they all started warning of the impending gay marriage and abortion ban, and then nothing happened. Of course the left either ignored or payed no attention to the numerous occasions on which Harper explicitly stated he had no intention of bringing up those issues. Harper may not support gay marriage and abortion, which is why I don't like him very much, but he knows that they are losing issues for the Conservative Party because A: The party is divided over it, with only Harper's Social Conservatives and some Libertarians backing him, and everyone else (Progressive Conservatives) being opposed to his stance. And B: It's a losing issue for the party because Canadians as a whole lean left, or Progressive, on social issues. And why do we care about social issues anyway? The government really has no business in it anyway. Many government functions are illigitmate IMO, and then men who came up with Democracy and Liberalism would be rolling in their graves if they saw our society today, but that's besides the point. So you can go on about how untrustworthy Harper is, and you can cite polls showing that nobody trusts him or nobody votes for him, but polls are the easiest statistical data (if they can even be called that) to manipulate. It's like Bush in 2000 and 2004. The left wing media was out on the university campuses talking to all the commies QQ about how they don't know how Bush won because they don't know who voted for him. Well he did, twice, so someone must like him. Same deal here. Obviously someone is happy with the job that Harper's Conservatives are doing, because despite all the complaining about him, which on occasion you'll see coming from the right, like myself, people still must be happy with him, because he's still our PM. He won in 2006, he won in 2008, and he won in 2011. So I guess the opposition are a lot less trustworthy, and voters don't have confidence that they'll do a good job. In the end, the Conservatives are largely doing a good job and that's been reflected in their continued leadership of our country. Our economy is one of the best in the world right now. We've got decent growth, we're takling our deficit, and we're in no threat of economic collapse like Europe and USA are. I wonder why, perhaps because we've got a party who actually has some understanding of economics in power. Can't say that about Obama's Democrats or anyone left of the Libertarian parties like UKIP in Europe.