Canadian government toppled by non-confidence vote

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PS - Ashock, I'm kindly suggesting that you should be a bit less of a loose cannon with that anti-commie sentiment. If you just have to give flak, send it in direction of the NDP.
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Who did, I might add, abandon their overtly 'evolutionary socialist' roots LONG ago, and are far from being 'commies' nowadays. Left-of-center social democrats are not all, by definition, commies.

Earth to Ashock: a majority of the Canadian public favours universal, public medical care, semi-strict gun control, and *gasp* the legalization of marijuana. Oh yeah, and a large majority are happy that we stayed out of Iraq. The Conservatives are opposed to all but universal medical care, and their policies on health care are not beyond suspicion. It ain't gonna happen.

The post-Reform era Conservatives will never hold a majority government in Canada (not in the next 10-15 years, anyways, barring some far more catastrophic scandal), and even if they manage to pull out a minority in the next election, a Liberal-NDP coalition will likely exceed their numbers. Although the BQ is buddy-buddy with the Conservatives at present, they are no party's ally, and I strongly suspect that they really would prefer Liberal policy to that of the populist Albertan variety. Regardless, bringing down governments is good press for the BQ, I'm sure that they'll be happy to oblige somewhere down the road.