Well, I am not against taxes - I would just prefer certain types over others (eg:  Consumption taxes vs Income).    I support our socialized health system as well - just think it should be removed from the Provinces and streamlined as one Federal agency (vs 13 health Ministries).     I'm more of a pragmatist than anything else.

I am dead-set against what passes for a "Conservative" these days though.    This group is just thinly disguised social conservatives (on both sides of the border).    That's why the last decade in Canada was such a joke.    They had to walk a thin line between pleasing their social conservative base (who paid most of the money which got them elected) and governing in a way that would keep them in power (which meant buying the vote).    As such, they accomplished very, very little.     Worse - they spent millions of tax dollars trying to convince the country that they were "Conservatives" when nothing they did was remotely "Conservative".