Canadian Election Dumps Liberals
By Stephen Brown
FrontPageMagazine.com
January 27, 2006

"It’s a very sad day for Canada when the Liberal government has been ousted by the Republican Right.” – Rosie O’Donnell

When an exercise in democracy makes arch-liberal Rosie O’Donnell and others of her ilk unhappy, then you know conservatives have something to cheer about.

And the election in question that has O’Donnell so downcast occurred last Monday when Canadians ended the corrupt, 12-year rule of Canada’s anti-American Liberal Party and handed power over to the America-friendly Conservative Party of Stephen Harper, Canada’s new prime minister. (Contrary to O’Donnell’s expert political analysis, Canada doesn’t have a Republican Party).

The final tally of this encouraging victory saw the Conservatives win 124 out of a total of 308 seats in Parliament, 25 more than the last election two years ago in 2004, and receive 36.3 per cent of the popular vote, enough to form a minority government. By contrast, the Liberals’ seat total dropped to 103 from 135, while they garnered only 30.2 per cent of popular vote. The socialist New Democratic Party and the Bloc Quebecois, the separatist party that campaigns only in Quebec, got 29 and 51 seats respectively, while one independent candidate also won.
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