I think that the Canadian problem is two fold. There is no truly national Party and there is no leftist Party. Both the Liberals and the NDP are centre line parties. Stephen Harper is leader of a very right wing party and, unfortunately he will probably win a majority in the next election. I see the conservatives as being the old Reform Party and it is therefore a Party with no philosophical grasp of the nation as a whole. I do think that Liberals understand Canada in a way that the oter parties do not, however, they have not been able to articulate this, especially in the west whre many see the country as a business and not as a nation. The NDP are a self righteous bunch really and don't get it at all. Sheep in sheeps clothing.
   After this election Canada will be a very different place and I, for one, will be very sorry to that happen.