I would love it if a Liberal candidate made a speech resembling the following. 

For starters this means removing the fig leaf of Conservative procedural misconduct and having the very debate about Afghanistan we, rightly claim the Canadian people missed out on.  In doing so, pace Ignatieff, scared cows are not the only wild animal to be avoided.  We must also be wary of elephants and guerillas.   Let us not pretend, for example, that our Afghanistan policy will not have domestic consequences.   We have recently seen that it does.   We can not pretend, as Stephen Harper does, that sending troops to Afghan we not protect us from terrorists who have never set foot in that country but wish us ill will because we have sent troops there.  We must accept that in a democratic society, politicians have a duty to base their arguments on the truth and that they do not have the option of designing arguments to obscure it even if believe our hearts in the right place.