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Commentator says Oct. 14 election "may well be among the least significant events in living memory" BY LifeSiteNews.com By Steve JalsevacOTTAWA, September 8, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - As widely expected, Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with the Governor General early Sunday morning to request the dissolution of Parliament. With that granted and his campaigning started later in the day in Quebec City, the nation was finally launched into the often on again and off again federal election.  However, some commentators have questioned whether the October 14 election will result in any significant changes given the relative conformity of all the parties to Canadian political correctness.In his Saturday National Post column, long time Canadian political commentator Robert Fulford stated this election "may well be among the least significant events in living memory." While in his column expressing jealously over the spirited US election with its far clearer alternatives and exciting speeches, Fulford continued about Canada, "What, after all, is at stake? Nothing, so far as I can tell. It feels like an election to nowhere". That may after all, express what many Canadians are feeling this time around.Having maintained the longest minority government in parliamentary history after his tenuous victory of January 2006, Harper has been anxious to finally win the elusive majority he has longed for since becoming leader of the Alliance and then merged Alliance/Conservative Party. Various polls indicate he may finally be given that majority by Canadians perhaps simply to see if it will actually make any difference to the mind numbing political scene of the past few years.A decreasing number of dyed-in-the-wool social conservative Harper supporters have constantly been encouraging support for the man with the mantra that, once he has a majority, Harper will finally be able to go into a telephone booth, put on his superman outfit and take decisive actions for life and family. The trouble is, the evidence has been substantial that Stephen Harper has no interest in stopping any of the killing of the unborn as well as very little proven interest in defending the family and religious or conscience freedoms.Ottawa Citizen columnist David Warren penned perhaps the harshest assessment of this election’s chances of resulting in anything meaningful for Canadians. In his September 7 article, "We are all prisoners of conscience", Warren notes that the prospect of this election "leaves me, and I would guess most of my countrymen, bored."Warren bemoans the lack of any difference in substance between the parties. He writes, "We have about five parties representing five slightly different grades of vanilla. The Tories perhaps anger me the most, because they promise chocolate chips, and don’t deliver." The last item especially reflects the general mood of pro-life Canadians, many of whom are expressing a sense of having been betrayed and abused by Stephen Harper.Warren writes, "If I were a woman, and the most important issue to me were the preservation of my unfettered legal right to kill my unborn children, I would have no difficulty in choosing the Democrat ticket. Whereas, up here in Canada, it really wouldn’t matter if I voted Conservative, Liberal, New Democrat, Bloc or Green."Warren states, "And to take a subject of special interest to me, none is prepared to defend our country’s common-law heritage, and due process in our courts (especially our family courts). None will vindicate the most elementary rights of free speech and free press. None will lift a finger when journalists and many others are hauled before "human rights" kangaroo courts, and put under Star Chamber inquisitions, as if Canada were exactly the sort of country our fathers fought in two World Wars."See Robert Fulford’s article:  http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/09/05/robert-fulford-sarah-palin-and-canada-s-election-about-nothing.aspxSee David Warren’s article:  http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/columnists/story.html?id=87a159cd-edaa-4f50-9552-b6f5e5874f22See previous in depth report:  Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Not Pro-Life – The Evidence  http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jun/060627a.htmlSee Campaign Life Coalitions’ 2006 federal election page with much information of still useful significance  http://www.campaignlifecoalition.com/elections/federal2006/ http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/canadian-prime-minister-dissolves-parliament-election-to-nowhere/

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