There's much that is repellent in the Conservative Party platform, but this seemingly innocuous element jumped out at me:

The Conservatives will also establish a wing within the Department of Foreign Affairs to promote religious freedoms around the world “as a key objective of Canadian foreign policy” and target foreign aid to groups that work with persecuted minority groups.

This appears to be a pet project of Citizenship Minister Jason Kenney, a Catholic fundamentalist who believes that Christians are being persecuted all over the globe. That PM Stephen Harper is willing to skew the country's foreign policy to appeal to his Christianist base scares the hell out of me.

Needless to say, Kenney is also anti-gay, anti-choice, etc. But so are many Conservative MPs; being in the minority, they've just had to keep their inclinations under wraps. Like most Canadians, I'll vote strategically (even if it means electing a separatist MP) to help deny Harper a majority government.

Here's a useful poll-aggregation site (obviously modeled on 538) for anyone wanting to track day-to-day election predictions:

http://www.threehundredeight.blogspot.com/