RANT POWER ON!

Conservatives are, right now, engineering this government to fall. Probably over a clean air bill that the NDP, Liberals and Bloc are going to attach Kyoto amendments too.

The budget is simply there election document and it shows a real change in strategy. Instead of attempting to become a viable party in the urban centers they are going to try and win in the suburban ridings and ignore the true urban ridings. This is the same strategy that worked so well for Mike Harris and so badly for Ontario when the PC's came into power. Suburban voters are more likely to appreciate a child tax credit and a clean air car credit as opposed to allowing a larger tax break for those who don't drive (and therefore should owe less due to them not contributing as much to road destruction).

Until the Canadian system has some form of representation by population this strategy will be the most efficient for the conservatives. For instance PEI has 135,851 residents, and 4 seats in the house of commons. My riding has, with a conservative estimate, 150,000 residents and 1 seat in the house of commons. Until cities get the representation in parliament that their populations deserve we'll never see truly innovate urban tax breaks, planning or anything else that will really change a city.

So basically Flaherty could care less about people who ride to work on their bikes. They live downtown, are probably socialists anyways and are largely not worth the time of the "new" government of Canada.

This election is going to be real tipping point for Canadians, the Green party will be included in the televised debate for the first time. The Bloc will have serious problems creating their usually amazing machine because much of their resources are already being used to support the PQ in the provincial race and the NDP is fighting for its survival.

Should be good fun.

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Oh yeah I can't wait to lose horrible tonight at the race!