Harper's personality not the problem

So, Conservative leader Stephen Harper wants to spend the summer barbequing with Canadians in an effort to show his lighter side.

Get real. The problem with your party, Mr. Harper isn't your personality (though that doesn't help). It's the policies of your party and your personal views. Though the Conservative party has struck many extreme positions from their official platform, they're not fooling anybody. These aren't Red/moderate Tories. They're a party beholden to the Christian Right in Canada. And unlike our southern neighbours, that just doesn't wash here - at least, not east of Winnipeg. Sure, they've picked up a few seats in Ontario, but nowhere near what they had hoped. And little wonder. Central Canada has little use for homophobia, anti-abortion and government with neo-conservative agendas.

A leadership change may help, but so would a repudiation of those in his party with extreme views. At least it'd be a start.