Its been that way for a while, the reform party couldn't make any inroads nor could the conservatives with right wing driven policies, they had most of their major successes when they moved towards a centrist mandate and took the political spectrum off of the table.
The Liberal's were outright punished in the last election because they shifted so far to the Left that they echo'd the NDP.
Canadain politics is all about balance now with real world issues taking a strong precidence over ideology based platforms. The NDP did buck that model a bit, but I don't think anyone even listened to the NDP platform, they were the ultimate protest vote in this election headed by a charasmatic man, it wasn't about a jump to the left (and take a step to the righ right righ righ right)
Even if you look at Right Wing policy claims in Canda, those policies are fairly centrist in the grand scheme of things.
The only people that are concerned about left and right wing policies are the people on the far radical sides of the spectrum, everyone else evaluates on a issue by issue basis. People that set a strict ideology based on the specturm are getting left behind.
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