Marvelous! The best result possible. Minority governments are far more likely to pass good legislation than majority governments, because they cannot get away with acting like a de facto dictatorship. They have to LISTEN for a change.

Canada has once again shown that it does not want to turn to the radical right. It's essentially a far more liberal society than the USA, and always has been.

The peculiar thing, though, is that the ruling Liberal Party has gotten elected 4 times now by promising NOT to move to the right....but as soon as they were safely in office they pushed through legislation very similar to what they said the wouldn't do! (meaning legislation taken straight from the policy pages of the Right which the majority of people voted AGAINST when we voted Liberal...or NDP)

This indicates to me that big business actually runs both the Liberal and the Conservative parties behind the scenes, and it doesn't matter a damn what the voters have to say about it. Right wing social policy goes forward regardless of whether it gets voted out or not.

You can see the same thing in England where a supposedly Labour government has been hijacked by Tony Blair who is pushing foreign policies which have betrayed the very constituency that elected him and have alienated much of his own party membership.

It's an absolute scandal, and we as voters do not seem to be in any position to alter the situation.

I am hoping that the NDP moves the Liberals to the left this time, in spite of themselves.