Whatever the precise result on Monday, and whoever forms a government, one thing should by now be clear: The political landscape of Canada is on the verge of historic change -- radical, permanent, and mostly for the better. Eight decades of Liberal dominance, punctuated by occasional Tory interludes, are about to come crashing to an end. This isn't 1984. It isn't 1979. It isn't even 1957. It's something completely new. It's new, in part, because this Tory party is something we haven't seen before. Previous Conservative uprisings have been rooted almost entirely in popular disgust with Liberal excess, and though...