Excellent essay by Mr. Macdougall.  It is a shame that those of us faced with a voting choice are always left to select the lesser evil.  I fondly recall  the days when I could trust Conservatives -like the Bill Davis era- and voters had a real choice.  But with the coming of Mike Harris, that choice left as the Conservatives seemed to welcome and promote bigotry against any and all who were non-white and non-Christian.  Now there is no choice.  I have no choice but to choose the lesser evil Liberals because they don't attract all the anti-muslim, anti-semitic, anti-Aboriginal, anti-black hordes that the Cons do -and support.  One can see the Conservative party working hard to become a bastion of white nationalism, and as Macdougall rightly points out, refuses to see any non-white subset of the Canadian milieu in a positive light.  Until the white nationalist riff-raff is tossed from the party, the rest of us will remain with only one, real choice to govern.