A Little Advice

The polls indicate that the Conservatives have had the best of the campaign so far. Largely due the fact that they have been able to concentrate on getting their own issues across whilst deflecting the focus of the opposition through personal attacks.

If any of the other parties wish to make any significant headway then they need to spend some time speaking to the electorate about what they intend to do. Here is one issue from each platform that they should spend a few days emphasising so that the idea becomes stuck in the electorates heads as representative of their policies;

Liberal Party- 10% income tax cuts to most Canadians (It takes a special kind of genius to have this as one of your main policies yet fail to get it across. Stop emphasising the "Green Shift" aspect of the plan and emphasise the tax cutting aspect).

NDP- Ban charges for ATM withdrawals (This would have a much more immediate impact on Canadians than the Conservative's tenuous and ill-defined fuel duty cut and it would position the NDP as the consumer's friend in the minds of the voters).

Green Party- Begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan no later than February 2009 (The Greens are still not perceived as anything other than a one issue party, this would give them the chance to portray themselves as more wide ranging and be very popular).

Great Leadership

"PM Harper’s spokesman says “If the NDP has decided they are changing their position… we will not stand alone on that point.” Harper will now participate in a debate, even with Elizabeth May present."

So now that the other guys are doing it I'll do it too. Marvellous.

Who AreYou?

The NDP have been using the Who track "Won't Get Fooled Again" during this campaign. I'm not so sure that a song with the line "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" is exactly the right message for this party.