Election Called

It's official: Canadians will vote on Oct. 14.

I get the impression that Toronto Star columnist James Travers is not going to vote for his Conservative candidate.

He writes,

"Canadians have had more than 30 months to test-drive Conservatives. They have witnessed the party's strengths, its weakness and, more importantly, its values and its world view. They know, or should, that the party stands four-square with picket-fence families and is making a loose federation even looser. It favours military solutions over diplomacy, beliefs over science and wedge politics over consensus. The direction is clear, as is the choice facing voters. They can opt for more of the same and Canada will accelerate along the path now leading it away from much of what defined it for most of the last century. Or they can force the pendulum back toward the centre."

Source: James Travers, "Voters face starkly different visions" The Toronto Star, 7 Sept. 2008. Accessed 7 Sept. 2008. Available: <http://www.thestar.com/comment/columnists/article/492227>