We agree (as do 91% of Canadians, according to the latest poll I saw) that Dion is a terrible leader. He instructed his MPs to abstain from voting on the last five confidence motions in the house.
You say you want Harper kept in a minority government position, and yet during the past year Dion has allowed Harper to govern much in the same way as a majority leader would, because he did not have the balls to bring Harper's government down.
I guess in some strange way, a vote for Dion is almost like a vote for Harper...
And isn't that leadership? Not leading his party into an election that both he and his party were ill-prepared for? Why do you think the Conservatives wanted an election so badly? Because their strategists knew that once the Libs were organised a little better, then it'd be an uphill battle for a Conservative majority.
Despite Conservative claims to the contrary, I'm of the opinion that if Harper gets his majority, Canada will be in for a swift right turn. Otherwise, why agitate for another election/majority government, when you were doing just fine passing your agenda in a minority situation.
In any case, IIRC, the original question was something along the lines of "Why vote Conservative?" So, here, goes:
(Actually, if it was a case of likeability, I'd have a coin flip between Jack and Harper - but seeing as GWB was elected, in part, based on 'who people would most like to have a beer with,' I think that likeability loses its validity as a rationale for choosing)
1.) Refusal to sign onto the international moratorium banning bottom-dragging as a method of fishing.
2.) Cancellation of Kelowna Accord.
3.) Allowing lakes to be re-classified as waste dumps for the mining industry
4.) Refusal to listen to scientific evidence about the operation of Insite in YVR.
I'll add more as I think of them..
"Ban vegetarianism?" 
