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Giving the party a free pass to the PMO regardless of their transgressions is the worst possible thing for the country, IMO. This one-party dictatorship is perpetuating the attitude among Canadians that "mediocrity" is fine. If we want better---and I do---then we've got to send a message that we want better performance. The only way to send that message is by firing the dictatorship.
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Consider this:
Even with all the allegations about criminal activity within the Liberal Party, polls still show them neck & neck with the Conservatives. Those same polls show that the NDP is the #2 choice of a majority of Liberal supporters. This is not because voters are unimformed or are idiots, despite what many posters here seem to think. Nor is it because of Liberal mud-slinging tactics. Canadians see the CPC as nothing more than the Alliance/Reform Parties in new clothing, and those parties have never appealed to voters outside of the West. This "one-party dictatorship", as you put it, is not the fault of the Liberals (although they've certainly been willing beneficiaries). The PC party of old would be killing the Liberals in polls right now, especially in Ontario and Atlantic Canada. If we want an effective opposition in this country, one that could conceivably win a majority government, it's the Conservatives that have to adapt. A Harper-led CPC, as is obvious to anyone by now, does not have enough credibility with voters to form anything more than perhaps a minority government.