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Canada Votes 2008
The Moderate Voice — ... If you’re interested, I’ve got more background and some live-blogging of tonight’s election returns over at The Reaction. Click here. (Especially if you’re Canadian, let us know what you think.) ...

Canada stays Conservative
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... and that means the Liberals and Dion still have some relevance.  They’ll likely lead the opposition while Bloc Quebeçois completes the Conservative government.  If Harper can successfully navigate the global financial crisis, he may find himself with that elusive majority in the next election.  He plans to use a tax-cutting agenda to rescue Canada from the crisis — which is refreshing coming from our neighbors to the north, and would be the right agenda for the US as well. My friend Michael Stickings live-blogged the election from the Liberal perspective, while my other ...

Reflections on the Elections
The Moderate Voice — ... .) Note, though, that is this much lower than turnout in most other mature western democracies (which mostly have parliamentary systems). One notable exception is, alas, Canada, where there was record low turnout for last month’s federal election (under 60 percent of registered voters). And so, despite the obvious importance of the election, despite what seemed to be all the excitement, 36 percent of the electorate didn’t vote. That’s pretty depressing. ...

Prime Minister… Dion? How Canada’s Opposition Parties Have United to Bring Down the Conservative Government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper
The Moderate Voice — ... (Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives, or “Tories,” won the most seats in October’s election, but they only won a minority and so formed, or re-formed, a minority government.) ...