THE MAPLE REVOLUTION

By Michelle Malkin  •  January 24, 2006 08:59 AM

Glenn Reynolds has a wrap-up of the conservative win in Canada. The liberals’ long reign is over.

Mark Steyn’s scorecard:

5.10am EST
Final score:
CONSERVATIVES 124 (my prediction: 138)
LIBERALS 103 (my prediction: 71)
BLOC QUEBECOIS 51 (my prediction: 58)
NDP 29 (my prediction: 40)
Independent 1 (my prediction: 1)

In other words, I overestimated the appeal of the right, the left and the separatists and underestimated the appeal of a party of floundering discredited kleptocrat incompetents who fought one of the most staggeringly awful campaigns in modern political history. Truly, the resilience of the Liberal Party of Canada is amazing.

Nonetheless, we have a Conservative Prime Minister. Let’s make the most of it.

John O’Sullivan’s assessment is also tempered:

A good but not great night in Canada. The Tories will form a minority government, but one with a more precarious plurality in parliament than looked likely from the polls. The Liberals are beaten and out but not humiliated. The Quebec separatist party has done worse than expected but still dominates the province. And the leftist New Democrats improved their position but failed to break through dramatically. In Canada’s four-party system that gives the Tories the government for something less than a full term.

What’s going on? Well, if Canada were a single individual, we would say that he (or maybe she) wanted to commit to the Tories but had developed cold feet at the last minute. This is exactly what happened one year ago but this time there was slightly more willingness to move rightwards. On that basis, the Tories will probably win a majority in a couple of years as the nation gets used to seeing the untried Tories in the Cabinet–and the roof fails to fall in.

Meet the new prime minister-to-be, Stephen Harper.

He’s already set to cut income taxes.

Damian Penny: The Paul Martin meltdown begins.

Calagary Sun columnist Paul Jackson: Darkness lifts. (More from Jackson at The American Thinker.)

And the Canadian Left’s derangement syndrome begins…

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