Conservatives Voted Out

[finehoe]

Canada's Liberals storm to landslide election win

Ottawa (AFP) - Canada's Liberals have won a landslide general election victory, with young leader Justin Trudeau ending a decade of Conservative rule with pledges to raise taxes on the rich in a struggling economy.
For many Canadians the vote was a referendum on outgoing premier Stephen Harper's management style, criticized as autocratic, and on who was better placed to put a sputtering economy back on track.

Besides raising taxes on the richest Canadians, Trudeau, the youthful and good-looking son of the late and beloved ex-premier Pierre Trudeau, has said he will lower them for the middle class.

Canada's economy contracted in the first half of this year. The country is the world's fifth largest oil producer and has suffered dearly from a big drop in prices for crude.

http://news.yahoo.com/trudeaus-liberals-win-canada-election-tv-projections-020906398.html

[Adam White]

I guess that's a minor improvement?

[finehoe]

To the US, everything concerning Canada is "minor". 

[Adam White]

To the US, everything concerning Canada is "minor". 

It looked for a while like the NDP could possibly do well enough to form a government - but they were routed. I think an NDP government would've been a better result.

As it stands the big improvement is no more Harper government - but it's basically replacing one right wing party with another, slightly less right wing party.