No, Mr Harper, The Left Still Doesn't Trust You

As the Life Site News editorial suggests, Harper would have to personally kill an unborn baby to avoid the hidden agenda charge.

OTTAWA, October 8, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper went on a verbal rampage against the right to life of unborn children last week, promising not only that a Conservative government would not open the abortion issue, but that it would prevent anyone else from raising it.
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So, what was the reaction of Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe to Harper's new hard-line against unborn children? Absurdly, it was to suggest that Harper has a hidden agenda to recriminalize abortion. Maybe Duceppe just doesn't speak the same French as Harper.

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The left doesn't trust Harper on social issues. Neither do they trust him on fiscal issues, so his recent attempt to lure the Liberal and the Bloc votes by pledging to reinstate the art funding and movie credits failed miserably. The left-wing voters don't really need Harper; they have Dion, Layton, May and Duceppe to vote for. So why would they vote for an imitation when they can have the real thing? No wonder the Conservatives are now behind the Liberals in Quebec...

So, Mr. Harper, the left doesn't trust you. How about coming back to the right then? No, I don't expect another flip-flop on arts funding or a pledge to reopen the abortion debate (although some action in that direction would be nice). But how about a sound Conservative policy which would appeal to those in the Conservative camp who wouldn't want their vote to be merely a protest vote against Stephane Dion's Liberals? There are still 5 days to go...