Maniacal
the green Napoleon
The campaigning has already begun, the Conservatives have put ~$26 million of public money towards their own ads iirc.Don't they teach you Canadians how your government works ?
You have a Westminster type system with a GG etc.
If Harper loses a vote of confidence an election is NOT automatic unless due.
Governor-General David Johnston has the power to say to Harper no, no election until the leader of the opposition has had the chance to see if he /she can form a government and to see if it has the confidence of the house.
If the GG does not do that one would then have to wonder about how neutral he is.
Your last GG made a bad error in allowing Harper to shut parliament down before a vote of confidence was taken.
what is so bad about the conservatives anyway?
For starters, they have done very little to curb pollution, Alberta (probably the most conservative province) has a huge oil and gas industry which is trying hard to hide its true environmental destruction, they would like to expand the prison system (when we have an all time low crime rate) instead of doing something to actually reduce crime (prison does very little), and other reasons I haven't really read up on yet.
EDIT: And as above Harper would love to get rid of a number of social advancements that have been made, such as legalizing gay marriage.