On January 23, Voters will Choose the Canada They Want!!!!

This will probably be my last plea, I basically want all Canadians to reflect upon what these Conservatives stand for compared to the Liberals. Its a value difference election, the liberals believe in women rights, the Conservatives like Peter Mackay poke fun at women. The liberals want to have income tax cuts, the Conservatives would like to increase income tax. The liberals care about the environment and climate change, the Conservatives like our Republican neighbors do not really care about climate change.

This election is about our values. It is about the kind of Canada we believe in; the kind of Canada we want.

On the one hand, we have Conservative Leader Stephen Harper offering a socially conservative agenda with tax cuts for the wealthy and extreme right-wing views on the social values that Canadians hold dear.

Mr. Harper is offering an agenda that would cancel national child care; that would open talks with the U.S. to join ballistic missile defence; that would pull out of the Kyoto Accord; and that would scrap our national commitment to help raise Aboriginal Canadians out of poverty.
Mr. Harper sees the Supreme Court as an obstacle to him implementing his neo-conservative views. There’s only one way in which the courts in this country would do this, and that's in their defence of the Charter of Rights. This defence applies to same-sex marriage. It applies to a woman's right to choose. And it applies to the vast range of rights Canadians value.

These are rights Mr. Harper doesn’t seem to think too much of. He makes no promises that we won’t re-open the decades-old debate on a woman’s right to choose or take away equality rights by repealing same-sex marriage.

Mr. Harper claims a commitment to accountability as his number one virtue, but refuses to be accountable for how he’d find $22 billion to make up for the shortfall in his platform.
The Conservative platform states that they will eliminate the capital gains tax for certain individuals, which would create a tax loophole that would provide a $6-billion benefit to the wealthiest one percent of Canadians over the next five years. And particularly appalling is that while providing this tax break for the wealthy, the

Conservatives will roll back Liberal tax cuts for low and middle-income Canadians and force them to write a cheque to the government for the difference. In fact, the entire Conservative platform is at best confused, at worst deceptive. The Conference Board of Canada, hired by the Conservatives to verify their platform, was forced to concede it could no longer stand by its costing because it was not given all the numbers. Specifically, the party’s health care guarantee and its promise to redress the so-called “fiscal imbalance” between Ottawa and the provinces were not included.

Canadians have to ask themselves how can they trust a party to govern that is either incompetent or deceitful. NDP Leader Jack Layton claims that he believes in a Canada that is strong and caring, one where no one is left behind. And yet, this campaign has seen Mr. Layton abandon these principles in his quest for power.

Mr. Layton claims to value the environment, our social programs and our commitments to Aboriginals. He claims to be in favour of an independent foreign policy for Canada, of a woman’s right to choose, of equality rights for all Canadians. And yet, when it comes to taking issue with the Conservatives on these fundamental NDP values, Mr. Layton has been silent. He has all but ignored Stephen Harper – he who supposedly takes positions that are opposed to the NDP.

When the time has come to fight for issues that progressive voters believe in, Jack Layton has taken a pass. In the fight against a party that opposes Kyoto and Canada's commitment to climate change, that wants to repeal same-sex marriage and hold a free vote on a woman's right to choose, that wants to scrap national child care and replace it with a tax cut, Jack Layton has taken a pass.

We have to wonder what his real principles are. He would rather risk Stephen Harper's success than be faithful to his own party's principles. But even more than that, Mr. Layton has repeatedly pledged to work with a Stephen Harper government.

You're either for progressive social and economic policies, or you’re not. Contrary to what Jack Layton apparently believes, you can not have it both ways.

As for Gilles Duceppe and his Bloc Quebecois, they continue to put their separatist ideology ahead of the interests of Quebec.

The fundamental choice facing Canadians in this election campaign is between two leaders with two profoundly different ideas of what Canada should be – two different notions of the values we should carry into the future.

Mr. Harper has said that when he is done with changing Canada, we won’t recognize it – and he means it. He seeks to move us toward a Canada where people are forced to fend for themselves.
Mr. Layton has proven that his own political ambition is more important to him than standing up for progressive values.

Prime Minister Paul Martin believes in what we can achieve when we strive together as a society toward a common good. His vision of Canada is one that is faithful to Canadians’ values and the values on which this country was built.

Only the Liberals will serve the values of progressive voters.
In the fight for environmental sustainability, for a ban on handguns, for a new deal for our cities, for public health care, for child care and for lower tuition, Prime Minister Martin never takes a pass.

There is only one leader who will lower personal income taxes for middle-income families, who will speak with an independent voice on the international stage and who will honour our commitment to help Aboriginals out of poverty.

There's only one leader who will keep Canada's commitment to the world on Kyoto and fight to combat climate change.During this campaign, we’ve seen a Conservative leader willing to undermine the successes we’ve built as a nation with irresponsible tax cuts.

Liberals know that the social fabric that binds and protects Canadians is not enhanced by ill-targeted tax cuts that favour the wealthy at the expense of average Canadians.

A Liberal government will continue to govern according to Canada’s values, to act upon our national objectives, with the goal of making our hopes and dreams a reality and ensuring that our quality of life is second to none.

Alright, Canadian voters, I plea to you when you go to the election booth tommorow please do not vote for the Conservative and please direct your vote to the Liberl party, the values of the liberals reflect more of Canadian values than the Conservatives do, please lets not wake up on Tuesday to a radical different Canada where George W Harper is in charge!!!

GO LIBERALS GO!!!!!