Remember what we're choosing...

With only 2 days to go before the election, I'm resigning myself to the fact that, unless he's caught reclined nude on a pile of money with a 9 year old boy... Harper is going to win. This reality makes me very sad. I'm incredibly pissed at the Liberals for being such assholes that the average Canadian can't stomach another term of their corruption and scandal. And I'm frustrated with Jack Layton for seeming to apologize for providing the "third option." Like Oliver Twist, he begs for votes instead of standing up and fighting for the NDP. Love 'em or hate 'em, the NDP continues to be the only major party that really means what they say and says what they mean.

So because we're stuck with really no choice, Harper will win. But, dear Canadians, please don't fool yourself into thinking he has changed. He has kept the far right members of his party sufficiently muzzled this campaign. He's no dummy - give him that. But their views are the same as they always were. They are not the PC of old - they are Reformers in disguise, and will take us as far right as they possibly can. The Vancouver Sun has a great article about this very thing today. You can read it all here: http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=a056990a-32cf-4e06-aabb-024f361e58f8 . But allow me to cut and paste a bit:

• "Voters should not fool themselves into imagining that Conservatives, once in power, would not be much different from the Liberals. The electorate needs to recognize that they will be extremely different, in both good ways and bad.
  Harper will downsize government, stubbornly persist in trying to limit the definition of marriage to the cookie-cutter man/woman model, focus on promoting economic growth through the private rather than the public sector and reward citizens, as he so frequently says, who "work hard and play by the rules." His capital gains initiative would mainly benefit $100,000-plus earners.
  Harper has suggested he won't be bound by the Kyoto protocol, the requirements of which the hypocritical Liberals disgracefully ignored. This will be significant on the foreign policy front; withdrawing from a signed international accord isn't the sort of thing Canada is known for.Harper pledges to appoint judges with "a judicial temperament" -- prepared in their decisions to recognize parliamentary supremacy.And forget decriminalization of small amounts of pot.After a relatively brief fling with one of Canada's least ideological prime ministers, voters are about to embrace an ideologue."
  

Remember this as you vote on Monday. Because Harper will be limited only by the number of seats he holds. A majority? Can you say "USA North"?