Well, first off, the fact that Harper campaigned for and introduced fixed election date legislation so that Prime Minister's couldn't just call an election when it suited them, but then he went ahead and did just that is complete bullshit.
He clearly introduced a bill that had no teeth and he knew it. Thats a broken election promise.
Second, why did Harper wait until now to pull the plug? Parliament has not been in session for 3 months, but he waits till now to call and election? Why now? It seems to me that the parliamentary committee looking into his "In and Out" scandal where they were moving money around from the party to candidates and then sending in doctored invoices to Elections Canada for re-embursment was getting a little too close to finding out what was going on. I mean, they know the invoices were doctored since the company that the Conservatives said they came from said they weren't there's. And then they called the people involved to testify and the Conservative party told them not to show up? Pulling the pull on parliament makes the committee go away... for now.
Third, he spent how much time demonizing Dion saying he's "not a leader". Based on WHAT exactly? Because Harper says he isn't? Dion is apparently so much not a leader that he was able to keep parliament going much longer then most other minority governments. Harper is trying to make this about HIM. Government is not about one person, it is supposed to be about US... the people. But again this fits his egomaniacal, controlling personality. He is a micromanager and controls everything. His PMs can't even speak to reporters without him clearing it first.
Forth, this is costing us $300 million dollars for the election which wasn't supposed to be held for another year.
Fifth, Harper and his neo-cons evangelicals scare the fucking shit out of me. I PRAY they don't get a majority. I have no doubt based on his ideology and his track record that he is as bad or worse then George Bush.