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I would suggest that the left side of the political spectrum is currently being split between the Liberals, NDP, and Green

That's the left's problem, not a Canadian citizen problem, and certainly not the "right's" problem

How many ridings would the conservatives have won if the Liberals and NDP combined their votes?

then they should quit running candidates against each other...right? But the truth is, they have fought like cats and dogs for decades as well. Why? Because nither will secede power to the other, as well as the fact that they are no where really close to each other in ideology. Its perceived that the Liberals are left and the Cons are right...but the fact is they are both centrists with a few minor differences.

Is there another party in Canada that leans to the right other than the conservatives?

Right now? Not so much but indeacdes past there sure have been. So-Cred, Reform, Alliance etc....but what the Conservatives did was work through the silliness of it all and get their people all on the same page in an effort to move forward. Somthing the Liberaks seemingly dont want/cant do, much like their fundraising abilities to get support from grass roots.

I would suggest (purely my opinion) that Canada is left-leaning and that we are in this minority government not because the conservatives represent the majority, but because the Liberals can't get their "stuff" together (Dion didn't help either).

Canada is centrist by majority votes...period. The Liberals have been elected many times, so have the Conservatives and philosophically if a country leans one way only or the other, that could not happen. Dion is a Liberal problem, not anyone elses.

So again, you would have to say that though the Conservatives didnt get the majority of the votes overall they did get the biggest majority of the votes, therefor combining the Bloc/Libs/Greens as being somehow the same thing is fallacy at best, and NOT representative of what the country voted for.