I agree, this could go either way.
This would be an election with unusual circumstances: - Following two Tory minority governments that, combined, are by far the longest-running minority governments in Canadian history.
- Coming at what appears to be the tail end of an unconventional global economic crisis and the beginning of a long recovery.
- Looking south of the border, the U.S. turned from years of being very conservative to being very liberal.
- Harper has had to be very cautious in his governance in order to maintain power--and for a long time at that. This can be seen as being either ineffectual or prudent.
I think whoever can sell their future vision of Canada best will win.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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