Tracy Johnson wrote:

>Shawn Gordon says:

>> On your wise election of the conservatives, sadly our own liberals
>> will now have to look to Venezuela to go to when they loose
>> the next election.

>Yes, but isn't a conservative in Canada still to the left of Karl Marx? ;^)

I was wondering when somebody was going to point that out. It should also be 
noted that it is a minority government with the Conservatives only holding 
124 of the 308 seats in parliament.
In case you get your Canadian election results off CNN, here are some of the 
details:

Conservatives      124  seats      36.3% popular vote
Liberal                 103               30.2%
Bloc Quebecois     51                10.5%
NDP                     29                 17.5
Independent             1


Green Party                      0                  4.5%
Christian Heritage Party    0                    .2%
Marxist Leninist                0                    .1%
Marijuana Party                0                    .1%
Canadian Action Party      0                    .05%
Communist                       0                   .03%
Western Block Party         0                  .01%

So even if you consider the Conservative party to be right-wing (by US 
standards), they're still outnumbered by left-wing parties who will be able 
to keep them from doing anything silly (like revoking the right to same sex 
marriage).

Of all the parties shown here (I left out the wing-nut fringe parties), the 
only ones that might be further right than say, the US Democratic party, 
would be the Christian Heritage Party, the Canadian Action Party, and the 
Western Block Party, which together got less than 1% of the vote.

Bruce 

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