From the top down...

It really gets to me when certain individuals interested in our party say that they will wait to see if we, "pick up momentum". There are many people that currently hold memberships with the Conservative party that are not happy with the direction the party is taking, but are far too removed from the Liberal Party to join with them.

It is sad that the right-of-centre alternative (that is Progressive Conservative) is still available, under the new Progressive Canadian banner, but still many of our potential members feel that they are better to sit with the CPC instead of working with us to rebuild the centrist alternative.

We are a socially progressive and fiscally conservative party. The new Conservative Party is not socially progressive.

However, if history is of any use, it will be that a party that does not respond to it's membership and a party where most decisions come from the top down, is destined to fail. I patiently await the self-destruction of Harper's Conservatives. Just as the Canadian Alliance/Reform party eventually led the takeover of the Progressive Conservative Party, we will eventually take the centrist membership from the CPC.

Slowly, surely, and patiently, we will rebuild the Progressive Conservative alternative.

Have Canadian Values Changed?

I don't think so. Perhaps certain Harperites would like to think so, but I tend to disagree.

Harper and Co. have already reduced the basic personal exemption rate (putting an exceptional amount of families back on the tax rolls), raised taxes for Canada's lowest-income earners, and now have cut funding to many programs that need the funding most.

The biggest lie behind it all, is that they claim that this is "being responsible with taxpayer's dollars." These cuts only account for about 0.5% of total government spending.

I don't know about others, but if I was working to save 0.5% at my income level, I would make one less stop at the local McDonald's every month.