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Originally Posted by flar
That's not so bad, we'll return to Liberal majorities.
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Or to unstable Liberal minorities. Between the two de facto regional parties (the Bloc in Quebec and the Conservatives in Alberta), the only way a party can win a majority is by taking most of the rest of the country: Ontario, the Atlantic provinces, more of the Prairies, and B.C. The Liberals will have a hard time doing that without splitting the urban vote with the NDP.
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Originally Posted by flar
The Conservatives got slapped down with the coalition gambit and won't be able to do as much damage (they'll have to act like a minority government) when parliament resumes.
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That is a good thing, but Harper's approach has always been
incremental - making a long series small changes that aren't harmful enough in themselves to warrant a vote of no confidence but cumulatively nudge the country to the right. That incremental process - a process supported by the more corporatist Liberals now in ascendancy - will continue as long as Harper continues as Prime Minister.
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