Mooh, for a long time I've felt the same way about NDP and acted accordingly but lately they seem to be more in big-l Liberal territory (which isn't entirely bad, mind you). Meanwhile the Liberal Party of Candada has taken over what used to be federal Progressive Conservative territory, before that partied died its humiliating death. I agree with your renaming to Regressive Cons. (my pun intended), and I mourn the the pendulum swinging so far to the right. To balance it, lately I often develop overwhelming urges to vote Green Party.
Bottom line for me is that no election will represent the country effectively under first-past-the-post any more, not with the population in most of the ridings being so large and diverse. In ridings with small pops often the geography is large therefore difficult to represent the many with less access to technology--I'm thinking of the middle and far north and also of first nations.
The confrontational nature of opposition politics perhaps worked passably well in the country's earlier days. But with media and technology being what it is these now and for as long as we have affordable electricity, I think that governance would be far higher quality if our system required consensus and co-operation to function. It's too easy to make snide 5 second sound bites that offer nothing in terms of furthering the most good for the most people but offer peculiar amusement and entertainment, and as long as the system rewards that behaviour, it's what we'll get.
Now that we're so deep into SSB (snide sound bite) politics, it's all but impossible to have a public dialogue about options for a more representative system.