What don't 1/3rd of Canadians get?

The new Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey suggests Stephen Harper's party stands at 40 per cent, 12 points ahead of the Liberals, heading into the first of two televised leaders' debates.

Well, at least that doesn't include the leak from the AG's report on the G8, and it shows that the Liberals are still gaining in Ontario and the Atlantic provinces.  Those gains could easily translate to seats whereas gains CPC makes in the prairies won't really add to more for them. 

Still, with the pick-your-scandal-of-the-day hitting harper & co. day after day, it's disturbing that 1/3rd of Canadian voters still think that the CONs are the way to go.

Will this latest sign of contempt for Canadians and process make a difference?  (emphasis mine)

The Conservative election campaign is scrambling to deal with the fallout of a bombshell draft report from the Auditor-General rife with concern about pork-barrel largesse, dubious spending and misinforming Parliament...And it suggests the process by which the funding was approved may have been illegal.

That sentence alone should make anyone  not directly on the pork-barrel con-express want to go out and vote for any party that can get rid of harper.  


Pork-barrel largesse: don't care about Canada or average Canadians, want only to stuff themselves and theirs on taxpayers' dollars - all of our dollars


Dubious spending:  not good value for money; waste; not well invested on behalf of Canadians; possibly shady dealings


Misinforming Parliament:  Lying, guys.  That's lying.  If they lie to Parliament, they are lying to us.  And that is at the heart of why the harper government fell, and that should be the big issue in this election.


If the government lies and hides its financial dealings, its justifications for its spending, cuts, and policies, if it lies about its actions, if it hides reports and lies about them, then it doesn't matter what they promise in an election.  It doesn't matter what they tell you when they are in power.  Nice promises and pleasant verbal reports are easy to come up with if you don't intend to back them up with proof.

Harper's bunch fell because they refused to produce figures relating to what their crime projects would cost.  They have lied and lied about the cost of the F-35.  Now we find out they lied about the G-8 expenses.


May have been illegal:  does anyone really have to say why it would be very bad to elect a group that uses our tax dollars to engage in illegal activity?


This election, whether Canadians realize it or not, is very  much about contempt and all it embraces.