From where I am sitting (in Texas, at the moment) as a concerned dual-citizen, the only real agenda I can see from the CP is a want to align itself with the conservative movement here in the US, and turn Canada into the Capitalist free-for-all that America has become.
For all the bad you can say about the Liberals, their accomplishments over the past few years have reached record status. Unemployment is lower than it has ever been, we're running a budget surplus... I am an NDP supporter myself, but I'm telling you that to vote CP simply to "punish" the Paul Martin's Liberals for a scandal which originated back in the Chrétien era is a dangerous game for Canada. No matter the empty promises Harper might spout off today, there is no hiding the Conservative ideology and goals. If you value our social welfare, then I beg you, do not vote CP today, or ever.
The Republican party was the minority party in the US for decades, but they strategised and concentrated in those days, expanding their base, and making gains little by little, until they achieved what you see today. People, fascism doesn't start with a firework show... it starts off small, and builds intself little by little. Now we see the CP talking about military increases and missile defence. Soon it will be something else, and then something else, and so on. Now it's a minority government, then it will be a majoirty government, and that's when the real CP agenda will start to come forth. This is not about fear, it's about caution for not letting history repeat itself. These people know what they are doing; we do not know. They stand to make billions, and we stand to lose all the progress we have made.
I'm already living in an emerging fascist state. I don't want to go back to another one.
