My biggest pet peeve about a lot of the anti-Harper crowd is they refuse to believe that he was not in control of parliament. A Minority Government is when Party A holds the most seats in the House of Commons, but less than parties B, C, and D put together. For example, Party A might hold 45% of the seats, but B might hold 30%, C could hold 20%, and D could hold 5%--in other words, A does not have the majority.

We have five parties: The Conservatives, The Liberals, The New Democrat Party, The Green Party, and the Bloc Quebecois (this one has absolutely no business being IN parliament, but they are.)

Harper was in this position. Yes, he promised a lot of reforms. Thing is, to ram those reforms through, he would have to get the support of one of the other parties--none of which wanted those reforms.

Those parties forced him into some stupid budgets that he didn't want to put through, but it was put them through or have the government fall. That was his position.

I'm voting for Harper, and I will reserve my judgement for when he's ACTUALLY IN A POSITION to do what he promised.

Until then, leftloonies, GET A CLUE.