October 14 is the most important federal election Canadians have faced in decades, if ever. At stake may be the very fate of Canada as a nation. That is why you must vote strategically to prevent Stephen Harper from achieving a majority government.

Harper is avowedly in favour of more free trade deals despite the hollowing out of Ontario’s wealth that NAFTA has already performed.

Harper is in thrall to America’s worst-ever president: George W. Bush. Harper, like Bush, has broken his nation’s treasury and turned a surplus into a deficit. He wants to sell off Crown corporations to big private interests.

 He has many nation-wrecking notions and is relentless, maybe even ruthless, in pursuing them.

He takes counsel from the most ruinous villain to occupy the PM post in modern history: Brian Mulroney, who sold us out to the NAFTA scam and started Canada on the road to the nation-killing concept of a “Security and Prosperity Partnership” (SPP). That essentially means a political merger with the U.S. and, of all unseemly places, Mexico.

The dangers of that are clear and very present. It could result in the disappearance of Canada as an independent nation.

Busting the U.S. dollar as Bush has done could be a move in the U.S. financial elite’s play to install the continent-encompassing “Amero” currency that’s key to the SPP.

In some ridings, strategic voting may mean voting for the NDP, such as Olivia Chow in Trinity Spadina and hubby Jack Layton in Toronto Danforth. Don’t waste your votes on those who haven’t a chance of winning. In others it could be the Greens if they have a chance of winning and not dividing the opposition so that the Tories squeak through.

The best we can hope for from this election is that despite the well-deserved doofus image of Liberal Stéphane Dion, voters realize that he won’t last as leader after the emerging Liberal electoral debacle and be quickly replaced by Bob Rae who, best of all of them, has the right stuff to take Canada through these hazardous times.