What Happened to the Environment?

Coming into the election campaign, a lot of people that the environment was going to be a big talking point. Stephen Harper was going to implement some anti-Kyoto reform, whereas Paul Martin was going to keep the status quo (if not continue to make anti-pollution reforms). Canada has been a major player in the Kyoto Accord and has attempted to pressure the US into joining.

Now, environmental issues are no longer brought up. Nobody seems to care the Harper will rip up Kyoto (I guess that's one way to get the world to notice you). By the sounds of it, the Liberal scandal has trumped all negative aspects of the Conservative campaign. It has given undecided voters a reason not to vote Liberal, instead of looking at what the Conservatives could potentially do to the environment, minorities, and judicial system.

It's great that the Liberals are being held accountable for the mess they got themselves into, but did they have to do it when support for the Conservatives is at its highest since Brian Mulroney sang with Ronald Reagan in '88 (watched that clip the other day...I think it's enough to give one nightmares)?

This might in fact be the most exciting election since '88 (for those observers, was it actually exciting?).