What has Canada now become?

So, I read an article online here, which has the following statistics:

33% of Canadians identify with Harper, and only 18% of Canadians identify with Dion.

How can Canadians identify with Harper? Our Conservative government is no longer the Progressive Conservative party that it used to be. It is the Canadian Alliance (formerly Reform) in disguise. This is a Neo-Conservative/Far right (much more so than Progressive Conservative) party... The policies that it wants to establish mirror those by Bush and his Republicans.

Now, granted of course that Dion has only been elected as the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada about a month ago, and the Conservatives have targetted him with their campaign of negative messages. This I agree, doesn't help. But I wonder why people have difficulty relating to Dion?

What's wrong with you, Canada? And voting Canadians? Why do we want to vote in a party that wants to turn so many things back? Why do we want a government that will revisit issues (like gay marriage, wasting tax payers money to attempt to reopen it) Most of the support to reopen this debate was from people who wanted to protect the traditional definition of marriage, most of these people either with personal biases, or religious beliefs (or both).

It appears that the Canada I believe in, an open Canada that grants equal rights to every Canadian, regardless of age, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation is dead and gone, and has been replaced with a party that appears to be centre (or even progressive), but once a majority hits, will swing right back to the right again. We've now become a smaller, do I even daresay U.S. Lite?

And as a mathematician, I know that sometimes polls can be misleading, but unless I see otherwise, I'm worried about Canada, and its position as leader in the world.

But hey, look at our young Canadians who vote in organizations or institutions. Enough said. Has the concept of Sandbox politics now carried over to actual voting?