[AntiKev]

serves them right. I wish Ontario voters around Toronto were not so wimpy.

Let's be serious here...Toronto will NEVER be a Conservative stronghold. Not to be derogatory here, but it's basically a little Pakistan, little China, pick a country and you can bet there's more immigrants from there in the GTA than immigrants with Anglosaxon backgrounds. These people know nothing other than Liberal. They're sheep. They don't care what's good for Canada, as long as they get their free ride at my expense.

I could go further into this rant, but I don't want to say anything I'm going to regret.

As for the results of the election...the Liberals and NDP together only picked up *gasp* 154 seats (135 Liberal, 19 NDP). Not enough for a majority coalition. Now the Bloc won't help the Conservatives...but they won't help the Liberals either. The Conservatives picked up 99 seats, the Bloc 56 (which is a record for them if I remember correctly). The Liberal seats went about 50/50 to the right and left.

Stephen Harper said it best when he said that a Liberal minority supported by the NDP and backed by the Bloc would be "Corruption, Taxation, and Separation all the in the same Administration."

Paul Martin has too much "pride" to form a coalition with the NDP, espically if it doesn't give them a majority. There will be another election in 18 to 24 months. Somewhere in there, there's a Conservative policy convention, and plenty of time for the Conservatives to pick up ammo to use against the Liberals.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I have to agree with you. Too many Liberal Canadians are convinced they can vote themselves wealthy, courtesy of the national checkbook. As long as Alberta keeps funneling trainloads of cash to her neighbors in the east, those Libs will be right.

[hawkaw]

Thanks for your response. I understand your Toronto comments. I personally was thinking more of the greater GTA ridings like Barrie or Northhumberland or Ajax - Pickering that went liberal than within the "city" itself. But I understand and agree with your comment.

You know there was a time when Toronto always was "blue" but that is going back into the early 1960s etc.

You said:

Stephen Harper said it best when he said that a Liberal minority supported by the NDP and backed by the Bloc would be "Corruption, Taxation, and Separation all the in the same Administration."

I loved that line which he came up with this past weekend and agree with it too.

[skeeter]

These people know nothing other than Liberal. They're sheep. They don't care what's good for Canada, as long as they get their free ride at my expense.

US population centers (never bastions of conservatism, but at one time still politically salvagable given the right conditions) will forever be firmly in the liberal camp forever for exactly the same reasons.

Its more trouble than its worth to mention it, but its the truth.