Monday’s national election in Canada proved to be a decisive, historic turning point in the politics of America’s largest trading partner and neighbor to the north. Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party won an outright majority of seats for the first time in his five years of governing the country. But perhaps even more importantly, what had been a multi-party system for many decades, spanning the right, middle and left, now appears to be realigning to a simple two-party system of the right versus the left.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=111948