I feel an urgency in pointing out to those people who are considering voting conservative because of the sponsorship scandal that Stephen Harper is also wasting a significant amount of taxpayer money by demanding an unnecessary election, for the sole purpose of an inflated ego (Yeah, I know. Jack Layton was there too, but he's not at all as scary.). Those few dollars he's promising to put in your pockets won't make up for the reduction in Medicare, education and other spending he is more than eager to sacrifice. Besides, there's nothing - no law, not even, apparently, ethics - holding him to those promises. Please learn from the destruction the current administration in the United States has levied on its population - Harper is of the same mould - and don't vote conservative.