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It does indeed get confusing. Same idea as in the days of the Soviet Union. A conservative was the old communist guard and a liberal was a fighter for democracy and capitalism.

I sent a note your way one day as I was watching a Healthcare Conference coverage on CPAC. It was recorded and actually took place in November. There were a few Kiwis at this conference in Vancouver talking about their mixed delivery health system. Something Canada is in denial of, even though it is already taking place in Quebec with doctors opting out of the public system.

You guys have a form of proportional representation, correct? How is it working for you?

Proportional representation favours the Left no doubt, because this arrangement gives power to parties and politicians who are avtivist in stances, and in the postmodern West the type of activist politics people love is leftist. When MMP was instituted in 1996, this marked the time when it becomes harder for the conservatives to govern because arithmetrically, we can't compete with the Left on votes proportions (they have naturally 52% versus conservatives' 48%). The same thing happens to Mother Britain - since the 1960s it has been estimated the conservatives could best no more than 45% of votes.

In Canada, under the current First Past the Post system you have the Liberals in power 75% of the time. Had you used MMP, this would have meant the Liberals, in coalition with the NDP, being in permanent governance!