So I started a conversation with a friend this week, if you take the premise that Harper won a majority in the next election, what exactly would his platform be?
It's a hard question, given that he's been so focused on keeping his minorities alive. He seemingly hasn't had enough time to think through what he would do if given time and license.
The other difficulty is that he like many conservatives, is "against government". Now I've always had a problem understanding why someone who dislikes 'government' would want to run one, but that's another issue. The point being that he seems to be mroe interested in dismantling (destroying?) programs and also not all that interested in doing things that would involve more government.
So in the end there isn't much left. As far as I can see, there are a few things they feel strongly about. The big two are:
A national securities regulator
Dismantling the wheat board
Other than that, I'm not too sure what they really want to do, lower taxes of course. They seem to want to lower spending, but haven't to date.
I'm kind of curious to see what a Harper majority would do. One thing I think that would happen is is some kind of machinery of government changes. It's been a long time since there were any MOG changes, so it's a possibility. The last major changes were in 1993 and things have certainly changed since then.
Update
I forgot, they also want to get rid of the gun registry and stop financing poltiical parties and maybe stack the senate with more partisans to then "reform" it...
Maybe they should run on those 5 priorities and see what happens
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