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Originally Posted by octothorp
I think there's a major difference: the Martin Liberals had control of the center of the Canadian political spectrum, and chose to give it up to move left, yielding the center-right (and arguably the absolute center) to the Tories.
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That's really not arguable at all. The post-Chretien conservatives have never had 50% of the popular vote, and there's nobody right of them. The absolute center was and still is Liberal territory.