It was the night before the Election, and all across the nation people were tossing and turning and losing hours of sleep; should I vote for The Tories?

That is the million dollar question.

Stephen Harper is a well-known warmonger and bigot. He is the physical embodiment of everything that is evil and wrong and backward about the Canadian character. He likes baseball and his favorite TV show is Star Trek. He wants to privatize public health care, dismantle Kyoto, scrap federal daycare, ban gay marriage, illegalize abortion and send Canadian soldiers to Iraq. No amount of campaign spin can hide these plain facts.

Paul Martin and the bloated Federal Liberals are a rotten and sinking ship. They are doomed. Canadians are clearly sick of them. And for good reason; since 1993 Paul Martin has stolen $48+ billion out of Canadian social services, once the most internationally admired social safety net in the world, and transferred that enormous wealth to the banks and corporations. Paul Martin has turned Canada into a corporate welfare state.

There is a third way. It's called Social Democracy. A New Democratic Party government would not be about right-wing religious intolerance or corporate greed. It would be about social justice. The NDP are the only federal party not owned and operated by Corporate Canada. And that means they are the only party you can trust if you care about progressive values.

You may be thinking about strategically voting for the Liberals to block the Tories. Stop that. It won't work. The Liberals are doomed. In this election, the only way to protect health care and education and everything else from the corporations and greed-heads is to have as many New Democrats in parliament as possible to stand up for the things that you believe in. On Monday, leave work early and Vote NDP.

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Yours for a Minority Government in Ottawa,

"The Liberals campaign like the NDP but govern like the Conservatives."
-Gilles Duceppe (2006)