I'm sorry you didn't post this earlier (and, therefore, sorry I didn't make my post earlier), because I am now responding with the wisdom of hindsight. As I type this, our outgoing Prime Minister is conceding defeat to the incoming, minority, Conservative government.
The polls tell the whole story at this point.
The polls have been wrong for 2 elections in a row, a fact which I find heartening; polls are a lazy journalists best friend and distract the press from covering the actual issues involved in an election.
I disagree with where forcemajeure is coming from politically, and I despise Tony Blair, but he forcemajeure) is quite right about the nature of the Liberal's campaign in this (and largely in the previous) election. The Liberals under Paul Martin were a political boat whose captain had overthrown its previous commander without any real idea of why he wanted the position.
I think Canada's Liberal Party is hypocritical and only "progressive" as it has to be to maintain power. (As an example, it did not lead Canada into the Iraqi quagmire (I hope to address your piece anon, but make no promises; other fish to fry, et al) but it did send troops to Afghanistan in what is a de facto support role for US imperialism.) That said, it doesn't play the fundamentalist religious card and has the virtue, as well as the vice, of seldom succumbing to dogmatism.
Too Late
The polls tell the whole story at this point.
The polls have been wrong for 2 elections in a row, a fact which I find heartening; polls are a lazy journalists best friend and distract the press from covering the actual issues involved in an election.
I disagree with where forcemajeure is coming from politically, and I despise Tony Blair, but he forcemajeure) is quite right about the nature of the Liberal's campaign in this (and largely in the previous) election. The Liberals under Paul Martin were a political boat whose captain had overthrown its previous commander without any real idea of why he wanted the position.
I think Canada's Liberal Party is hypocritical and only "progressive" as it has to be to maintain power. (As an example, it did not lead Canada into the Iraqi quagmire (I hope to address your piece anon, but make no promises; other fish to fry, et al) but it did send troops to Afghanistan in what is a de facto support role for US imperialism.) That said, it doesn't play the fundamentalist religious card and has the virtue, as well as the vice, of seldom succumbing to dogmatism.