Why a Harper-led government should be frightening to Canadians:

• Harper was vehemently against Kyoto before it was ratified (contrary to the support of most Canadians).  Now he says he supports it.
• Harper slammed Canada in the Wall Street Journal and on Fox News regarding our position on the Iraq war, even though a large majority of Canadians were opposed to it - only to downplay and obfuscate his ardent support of the war when all the facts came out.
• Harper, who now touts himself as the new guardian of the Canada Health Act, a concept that most Canadian embrace, once said "it's past time the feds scrapped the Canada Health Act" and "moving toward alternatives, including those provided by the private sector, is a natural development of our health care system."
• Harper failed to recognize the irony in appealing to ethnic minority groups about restricting charter rights against another oppressed minority.
• Either Harper is completely egotistical and thinks he knows better than the unanimous opinion of over 130 Canadian law professors and law deans across the country (as well as the supreme court of 7 provinces and 1 territory) who all know without a shadow of a doubt that there is no way to revoke equal rights to gay persons regarding marriage, or he has no problem in outwardly lying to Canadians by saying he can revoke gay marriage without using the notwithstanding clause of the Charter.
• Harper called an NDP budget amendment seeking money for foreign aid, the environment, affordable housing, and education "a deal with the devil", only to try and convince people that as Prime Minster, he will provide the same social services as the current government (later in the same week, Harper chastised the government for not making foreign aid 0.7% of the GDP).  The fact is, an extra $2 billion dollar investment per year over the next two years does not put the Liberal government anywhere near a deficit as Harper tries to convince us.
• Harper originally supported the budget calling it "an example of a good conservative budget", decided to drop his support when his party was up in the polls, and then decided to support it again when Belinda Stronach crossed the aisle.
• Harper criticized the liberals for not negotiating in a minority government, and then criticized them for dealing with the NDP (even though the "devil" deal with the NDP was only created after Harper dropped his previous support of the budget.)
• Harper says he stands for reform and truth, but doesn't want the Gomery report finished before he brings down the government, only paying lip service to "innocent until proven guilty".  Does Harper even want Canadians to know the whole truth?  Where is Harper's apology to the recently vindicated Judy Sgro?
• For two years, Harper has had little better to say other than "the liberals are corrupt" without once providing any bit of evidence of exactly which liberal cabinet ministers are corrupt or how he can do a better job than Martin of cleaning up a government corruption.  Most Canadians want the truth, not a politician that continuously libels MPs by calling them criminals.  Was in not Martin that created the public inquiry in the first place?
• After months of calling Martin opportunistic and power hungry, Harper decides to align himself with the party trying to break up Canada as soon as he thinks he has the polling numbers to win an election.
• Harper has reduced Canadian politics to accusations and name calling: "opportunistic", "supporters of child pornography", "corrupt", "power hungry", "legalizers of polygamy", etc. while rarely ever trying to distinguish himself from the liberals based on policy (probably becuase the majority of Candians DO NOT agree with his socially-conservative, discrimanatory, pro-war, anti-environment views that truly distinguishes his party from the Liberals).
• See: Keith Martin, David Orchard, Joe Clark, Scott Brison, Belinda Stronach

I'm in Toronto now.  Four long years ahead of me.  Living the life of the student after a year working for the man.  Still have memories of the west coast.  What does life have in store?