Looking at the reactions of Canadians here and on Free Dominion to this election, I rather think you got your expections too high in the past several weeks, thinking that the Conservatives would be swept to a grand, insurmountable majority, etc. etc. But that was all based on polls (we should all be very wary of polls) and voters tend to get more and more cautious about voting for sweeping change as the election nears; as you might remember, the exact same thing happened in Germany, where Merkel was riding a massive tidal wave throughout the campaign and yet barely managed to scrap her win together in the end.
Since the anticipated Conservative majority didn't happen you're letdown. But despite what disheartened Canadian conservatives, as well relieved Canadian liberals, are saying, this is still a major victory. It is a victory simply to get those crooks out of power and now the Conservatives will have a chance to govern. Hopefully they will to it well and convince the citizenry to vote them even more seats next time. Yes, it is a long, hard slog. It has always been. Here in the United States our "conservative revolution" hasn't been any less difficult. In took 20+ years of the nascent conservative movement to grow strong enough give us President Reagan and reconfigure the political spectrum enough to make such a conservative ascendency possible. It took another 6 years after Reagan to win the House and by then triangulating Clinton had slipped in. It then took another 6 years to get the Democrats out the White House (by the skin of our teeth and losing the popular vote), another 2 years to win the Senate, and we still had a pretty close presidential campaign in 2004. And we STILL have to deal with ALL SORTS of democrat whining and obstructionism and republican wishy-washyness; it's still an endless brutal fight. And American conservatives, from what I've seen, tend to be quite optomistic about the way things are going. Canadian conservative should be too, in the face of this election, even though the battle is not even close to over: it has only just begun.
This election is encouraging, even if not a blowout.