Thoughts on the upcoming Canadian federal election?

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

4. this will be my first federal election as a Canadian citizen

And both Trudeau and Mulcair leave me completely cold. The Chretien Liberal entourage needs to be brought in from the wilderness.

The only impression Harper and the Conservative Party leave on me is one of breathtaking incompetence and amateurish small town city hall level corruption and are walking blindly into a 2008 style meltdown without the resources Washington had to leverage. They seem to have no economic vision beyond a Canadian economy based on condo flipping and mercantalist resource extraction and being a safe harbor for the world's dirty money.

I suspect we're heading for a wildly dysfunctional minority government regardless. But that's all in the hands of Quebec voters, which make the below seem comparatively rational.