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That's my point, he can't execute it without being voted out of office.
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Even if he got a majority trying to enact those things would lead to the destruction of the Conservative Party for decades in the election.
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Campaigning against Gay marriage back in 2005, pushing for an extended term in Afghanistan, attempting to shut down the in-site.
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I don't see the extension of the tour of Afghanistan as neo conservative agenda. Gay marriage sure, I can agree with that one, but he's even stated since then that its not something thats going to be re-opened for debate. Attempting to shut down in-site what?
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After getting into office he backed off on two of those for reasons stated above imo.
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So he's a fair weather neo-con then? Is that what you're saying. First and foremost Harper is a politician so I doubt that he's going to move anything through thats going to destroy his party or its continued leadership of this country.
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Which one? Chretien said NO U
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Ignatieff said yes he would have gone.
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There's a reason people don't like Ignatieff. It's not like I am implying that Harper would suddenly change us over to a theocratic state by getting a Majority, but I do think his policies would deviate a lot further to the right.
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I don't see that, Harper at his nastiest would be slightly right of center in the grand scheme of things.
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I honestly don't even see it as a 'hidden' agenda. I see it as an agenda is quite open to the public and the public doesn't really like what it sees, but likes what Harper can do in a minority setting since he really is the best of the worst.
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Yet recent polls show that you're wrong. At the moment he's hovering in majority territory, and in terms of individual leaders its not even close. Harper's road block to a majority resides with Quebec and its the same with the Libs as well as they are counter opposite to most Canadian's in terms of their political views.
And I have yet to see anything out in the open that screams radical right to me.
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Neither do I, but I do see gay marriage being looked at again, and things like drug laws becoming more draconian and in-line with the US' war on drugs.
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I don't see Gay Marriage ever being opened up again, and I believe that Harper even plainly stated that after the last debate about it in commons. Just as he said he wouldn't re-open the death penalty debate again, but people didn't hear that because they were gasping when he would be in favor of executing special cases like Olson and Bernardo.
I don't see Canada's drug policy changing in terms of enacting a war on drugs like the U.S., A Harper knows we can't afford it, and B he knows that there would be a backlash that could cost him votes.
I do wish that they would soften on the grass issue, but there needs to be more study on the effectiveness on that first.