Oh dear, Ed...I can only conclude that you have been asleep the past two and a half years while Harper has bullied us deeper into the Afghanistan mess, tried to dismantle the Wheat Board, appointed, (after the useless Ms Ambrose couldn't meet even his low standards) that jerk Baird as our so-called "Minister of Environment" so he could lecture us and the rest of the world on how any serious attempt to address climate change would be bad (their plan is merely a bad joke), and recently savaged some very modest arts funding programs by the charming device of slandering a few recipients who made easy targets, while cancelling all the funding these programs provided to many deserving and uncontroversial Canadian artists who could have been getting worldwide exposure and thus helping our economy grow...wow that was a long sentence but it could go on if I didn't have to do something more productive today than pointing out Harper's shortcomings.

And I guess you have never read the National Post before today if you think their "Canada should be like the Republicans" editorial line is a matter of opinion.

We know how to keep our eyes on the prize and so does S Harper.
The only thing scarier than another Harper minority is, of course, a majority led by this "respected and responsible national Canadian leader."   We've seen how he treats those who disagree with him when he has a minority...

W-O