Will the NDP soon become Canada's governing party with Thomas Mulclair? Or will they slip back into previous election results?

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Robocall Pandemic in Canada

The Facts: During the Canadian federal election in 2011, unbeknown to many Canadian voters, robocalls were being used to dissuade voters from casting their ballot by telling them their poll stations had changed location. For anybody that has had their head in the clouds over the past few months, robocalls are automated phone calls that uses both a computerized autodialer and a computer-delivered pre-recorded message. Since the "Robocall Scandal" has surfaced, over 31,000 Canadians have reported experiencing these robocalls,which include being telephoned at inconvenient hours or harassed by people calling on behalf of political parties. Some were automated calls, others were from live callers. Many of these robocalls have been traced to the Guelph electoral district in southeast Ontario.
As many more reports continue to flood in, Elections Canada has called in the RCMP to help with the large volume of complaints. As Elections Canada and the RCMP continue to investigate the issue, it has been reported it to Parliament, which caused Robocops to come out of the woodwork, pointing the finger at everyone else.
Right-Wing View : As the robocall controversy continues to flare up, both Stephen Harper, and the Conservative Party of Canada, denies having any knowledge or participation of the farce calls. Although denying knowledge and participaction of the calls, the Conservative Party has stepped up and acknowledged that there was a problem with the campaign in Guelph, which resulted in a party staffer connected to the campaign resigning. Over the past few days and weeks, Conservative MP's haven't said to much about the inicident, only stepping in to defend the opposition's accusations and continue saying that they are being unfairly attacked when it comes to the bulk of the calls. As of today, Harper continues to tell Canadians that the reports of robocalls is part of a smear campaign againgt the PC's that’s entirely lacking evidence.
Left Wing View: Both Bob Rae leader of the Liberal Party and Nicole Turmel, interm leader of the NDP has called for a complete investigation. When Harper said the whole incident was a smear campaign against the Conservatives, Bob Rae had this to say;
"Unless the prime minister and his associates want to say there are 31,000 Canadians and more who are participating in a smear campaign, he's going to have a hard time simply dismissing these concerns about what happened in the last election," as Rae continually spouts, Turmel has stood up and commented on the situation saying "Canadians are sick of these scandals," and "Conservatives promised to clean up Ottawa scandals, instead they have just added new scandals of their own."
Although Oppostion parties have been on the offense, Liberal MP Frank Valeriote, who was re-elected in Guelph, Ont., May 2, 2011, confirmed that one of his campaign volunteers made a robocall before the election that told people to vote Liberal because the Conservative candidate was anti-abortion. Valeriote said he approved the call and admitted the volunteer who placed the call gave a fake name. Bob Rae fired back to say ;
"Let’s not try to establish some kind of moral equivalence between these two things because there is none. And let’s be clear about that," Rae said.

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Abortion Debate Reopened in Canada?

The Facts: In 1988 the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the previous law on abortion, making abortions unlimited to an individual, on-demand, during the entire course of pregnancy. Last month, Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth released a statement calling for a debate on when a fetus becomes a child. Since then many evangelical groups, pro-life groups and other MP's are starting to rally around the thought of reopening the abortion debate. Although there is much support, there is just as much opposition.
The Right Wing View: Many Conservative MP's and their supporters hold the belief that human life begins at conception. Abortion is the murder of a human being. An unborn baby, as a living human being, has separate rights from those of the mother.Many oppose taxpayer-funded abortion and taxpayer dollars should not be used for the government to provide abortions. Because Canada is one of very few developed countries that have absolutely no restrictions on abortion, the news of reopening the debate is welcomed by many (except for Stephen Harper who said Canadians don't want it re-opened).
The Left Wing View: Many left wing MP's and supporters feel that by opening the abortion debate again, we are taking one step back in regards to human rights. They feel that a woman has the right to decide what happens with her body and a fetus is not a human life, so it does not have separate individual rights.The government should provide taxpayer funded abortions for women who cannot afford them.The decision to have an abortion is a personal choice of a woman regarding her own body and the government must protect this right. Women should have the right to affordable, safe and legal abortions
Taylor's Take: When it comes to this issue, I have to side with Stephen Woodworth. Stephen Woodworth Conservative MP for Kitchener Centre believes that with all of the technology developed since 1988, that the government should research with the help of professional doctors and gynaecologists to find out when a child in the womb begins to feel pain and lives. Woodworth isn't harping on the religious right message of life upon conception, instead he's calling on the Harper government to sit down and have a healthy debate and conversation about it and look again. If we live in a free and democratic society, than why would ANYBODY be against reopening a bill concerning the health of women and the future generations of Canada?