Agree, but I don't think Harper 2.0 with a smile will be enough this time around.  Likely there would need to be some sort of assurance to centrist voters that another barbaric snitch line or the like is not lurking in the shadows, as well as some sort of positive policy differentiation.  That said the modest fiscal conservative approach should be a good sell in contrast to Trudeau's deficits in the absence of a global recession.