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Canada Election

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

Here is some good election news for those badly in need of some. Unfortunately, it is north of the border. The Conservative Party won the election in Canada, increasing its representation although still short of an outright majority. "The outcome saw the Liberals sink to their lowest level of popular support since the election of 1867," according to this report in The Canadian Press. Let us also have a brief round of applause for our neighbors in naming their parties straightforwardly. The conservative party is the Conservative Party, and the liberal party is the Liberal Party. No other large English-speaking country can say that. They also apparently have the red and blue assigned correctly on their maps, judging by this Canwest story, unlike the backward color code that has become fixed in U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on October 15, 2008 (boomark / email).