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Beware the socialists are coming to Ottawa!!!

As this blockbuster of an election, hastily enters it's last days of campaign only one thing pops out above all others... the NDP and the personality of Jack Layton. It's hard to believe that some weeks ago the NDP were down below their 2008 poll levels and out of the blue tonight the NDP is looking towards it's biggest electoral victory yet.

Now what are the ingredients of such an amazing success? it's a 6 letter name HARPER. Harper is the source of this NDP surge. It's now been 5 almost 6 that Mr. Harper controls the ways and customs of power in Ottawa, this goes without saying that PM Harper has done a good job to keep Canada on it's toes during this financial downturn. We have to credit him for the achievement of enabling us with the strongest and fastest recovery of all of the industrialized nations. That being it's not because his economic "bilan" is clear cut that Canada must without any hesitation reelect him.

The meaning of Harper's 5 years are not as clear cut as the economic heritage he leaves us. In a time when Canada needed a uniting figure, Harper has been a polarizing figure. At first he seemed to finally be asking the questions, of which all Canadians were awaiting answers, he seemed to tackle the question of Quebec sovereignty, he was in some sorts cleaning up Canadian society and protecting the interest of the everyday Canadian at least that's what filtered through the mainstream media. And now 5 and a half down the road where are we? The NDP surge is something I consider essential for the political heath of our democratic system. Day in and day out throughout Harper's "mandate" the conservative government has ridiculed and stampeded Canada's values. Once champion of human rights Amnesty International rebuked Canada. The most important issue is the inhumane detainment of Omar Khadr at Guantanamo Bay, for as much as I know with my little knowledge is that Omar is a Canadian citizen and by that being should be judged by a Canadian court and detained if such is needed in Canada not in a American prison. Second of all Omar was minor when he was criminally abducted and taken to Guantanamo to be tortured and interrogated by American agents. Even a more powerful argument for a Canadian intervention against the illegal detention of Omar is that the pieces conviction against him are nonexistent. Second of all one thing that has always characterized the "Canadian ideal" is that Canada has always been a world leader in ecological defence terms and well let's just say it like this the Copenhagen conference wrecked that record.

So this election and probably the next election because even thought I hope with all my heart that Jack Layton/ the NDP and the Liberals of Micheal Ignatieff with find common ground and lead a coalition to Ottawa come May 3th, it seems like Harper with regain a minority government. But this election has been prove that after the catastrophic 2008 legislative campaign that we still stand on guard for Canada, for the ideals, the values that have been past down form generation to generation. And so this election is just the start I guess of a Canadian renaissance. We might be sick and tired of the same old broken politics of Ottawa but instead of giving in to radicalism and nationalism (something that happens commonly when citizens are deceived by the political situation of their country), on May 2nd a new political spectrum will be born. In the end this election has been the nirvana of Jack Layton's political career he has proven throughout the length of this election that form time to time citizens like you and me, without any foreseeing form the so called "pundits" can rise up and change forever the political game. We are the guardians of our democracies, we still stand on guard for thee.

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Omar Khadr we haven't forgotten.