My, my! Yet another Tory Fundamentalist who thinks they have cornered the market on Christianity. Newsflash, MacDougall: The mainstream Protestant Churches aren't anti-abortion or anti-same-sex marriage. And the Catholic Church has been told by Pope Francis it has been too focused on social conservative  issues and needs to move on to more important issues such as poverty and climate change.

It's not an anti-Christian message. It's the reminder that the Conservatives are now a party of Hidden Agendas. Harper didn't enrage the opposition until he won his majority. He had been governing as a small c conservative in minority, but moved swiftly to the far right when he had his majority. Which is not what middle of the road Canadians had expected.

Scheer is just Harper with a smile. And that smile will be there until he wins a majority. Then it will turn into a sneer of contempt. Scheer is not about building bridges or healing wounds or finding consensus. He's a social conservative.