Damn partisan politics. If the tories had been in power in 2003, Canada would have sent as many soldiers as possible to Iraq and probably would have bought double the number of grenades mentioned in this article. But the tories are so freakin focused on bad mouthing the Liberals that they are willing to insult policies that they would not only have employed, but celebrated (ie sending troops to Kandahar). I am a tory, but I know that the Conservative Party has no chance in hell of winning with this negative approach to everything, and Harper is already too tainted. Not to mention the fact that he looks evil
...Martin looks like a prune, but at least prunes don't scare people. The Tories have a lot of good MP candidates lined up (my riding's candidate, Peter Kent, seems awesome) but until one of them (preferably someone who actually lives in Ontario where all the votes are) replaces Harper, the Tories will always be known as the "annoying opposition" that always tries to "obstruct the functioning of the government" and the NDP (even though they are tax-looting socialist scum) will be known as the "cooperative opposition" that wants to "get things done". The fact that the Tories keep joining forces with the separatists to bring down the government doesn't really improve their image on that front either.