This past Monday, enough Canadians came together to reconfigure our political map. The contours of the new one are still fluid, but in time, with another election, the emergent shapes might acquire stability. For now, the election results reveal a divide in the new Canada, and also a new hope for healing the old wounds of national unity. The country is somewhat divided along urban-rural (or urban-suburban) lines. Residents of Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver held back from voting for Conservatives, but could not entirely deny the pressures for change building in the nation's heartland. It is as if the "sophisticates"...