The pot calling the kettle black

Over the weekend Canadians were told they would be going to the polls May 2, 2011.
Immediately Conservative leader and now former Prime Minister Harper started warning Canadians of the dire consequences of what a coalition LIberal, NDP and Bloc government would mean for Canadians.
He made it sound like it would be the end of Canada as we know it.
I found my jaw dropping as I heard the pot calling the kettle black. After all, it was just seven years ago when he himself was hoping to form a coalition with the NDP and the Bloc. How would things be any different with a Liberal-NDP-Bloc coalition than what he wanted?
Of course there would be some philosophical differences, but as in the minority government situation we just exited, the members of the coalition would have to work together and give and take to get things done.
If one goes even farther back than Harper's proposed 2004 coalition, he and the Reform Party formed another coalition with the Progressive Conservatives. The Reform was born out politicians disenchanted with the parties they belonged to; mostly the PCs. Then when they figured out that splitting the conservative vote would never let them form a government, they joined forces to create the Conservative Party we have today.
Now the liberal/socialist vote may have to team up to do what Harper did, and he sees the possibility, that his coalition days may be numbered, so he has resorted to fear tactics.
I think it is clear from the last few elections, Canadians want politicians to work together and not form majority governments that can act as dictators ramming their own philosophical beliefs down our throats.
–Until then,
Ken