This election is demonstrating that the Conservatives are not yet a national party.
They made a mind-boggling tactical error with their get-tough-on-youth-offenders policy. While the policy is popular for their base in western Canada it has shot themselves in the foot in Quebec. Numbers in Quebec have been crumbling ever since and they are now running third in the province. What looked like an improvement from their 10 seats in 2006 is now looking like a complete goose egg. Didn't polling numbers tell them that crime doesn't play in Quebec or Ontario much for that matter?
Either way, another election another minority.
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