They can call it the Canadian Alliance Party if they want to (it ain't that yet... the vote is still to be taken by what's left of the federal Tories), but it's still the same old group of bigots, religious wackos, snobs, and general anti-social misfits it ever was as the Reform Party. When they where first forming, they took in anybody as a member who wanted to run in any riding, with not much checking into what they really stood for or who they really were. Now they'll have a bugger of time cleaning up their image. Lots of closet Spencers and Keegstras to root out.

I definitely understand the western provinces' feelings of discontent and resentment over the federal government being mainly controlled by Quebec and Ontario (or should I say South Quebec and South Ontario), but I wish they had a better alternative to vote for than that crew.