Well, we'll see.
Canadians have a new Prime Minister-Elect today, Justin Trudeau, whose Liberals swept across much the country in a tide of change, after 10+ years of Harper Conservative rule. It did come at the expense of the NDP, I think, and the Green Party too. I know I voted strategically, just to get rid of Harper, but our riding typically is Liberal anyway, or has been for the almost 20 years I've been here. The thing is, it wouldn't have mattered what party or who was in power; after that many years we all would have said enough is enough. And if Trudeau is around for a decade, we'll probably oust him then too. So now we'll see. I'm not dissatisfied with the results, though I am very surprised it was a Liberal majority . It's the first time in Canadian politics that a third-ranked party has swept to the forefront like this. I think, though, that like Obama in the States, it will be impossible for Justin Trudeau to live up to peoples' expectations. ...