Actually, no.
Liberals and Conservatives may not see eye to eye on every single domestic issue, but by no means does that mean Liberals are "soft" on crime.
However, the smear-campaign style adopted by Stephen Harper could have very well been written by Carl Rove himself. From Bush's attacks on Ann Rice about "teaching kids about homosexuality" and being "soft" on crime which won him his Governorship, to the overtly unsubstantiated attacks against John Kerry during the 2004 election campaign about Kerry's inability to lead the war on "terror"..... both Harper and Bush are demagogues who use fear instead of their own platforms to win elections.
No one in this country uses fear to win elections as much as the left.
Remember the ads from last election with soldiers in the street? Or the famous hidden agenda myth?
Martin's *entire* campaign last election was on how "scary" Harper is.