[JohnnyB]

I don't think there's anything irrational about being concerned over how a party might influence the industry that you work in. Seems pretty normal to me. I just don't see how anyone can really look at what the conservatives have achieved and think that they're particularly good for the economy.

From my particular point of view, watching Canada's relationship with China develop over the last ten years, I feel as though the conservatives have stumbled and bumbled incompetently for years. The FIPA deal now locks Canada into a deal for three decades, with virtually no public discussion or discussion in parliament. I can't help but worry that, based on their incompetence and complete lack of understanding of China shown over the last decade, the details that were never given real opportunity to be discussed in public before ratification are going to be hurting Canadians economically for a generation.

At the same time, the conservatives have no doubt been terrible for the state of the country socially and democratically. Harper seems to have disdain for Canada's political and electoral system. The main drive of the conservatives under Harper has been to centralise power in the PM's office and manipulate political discourse through that control. These are not practises that show respect for the nature of Canada's political system and I believe threaten to harm Canada long-term. From the outside, it has felt like watching the Americanisation of Canada with a party that wants to be the Republicans north of the border.