Left-leaning party rises as Canada vote redraws map FEATURE 05/04/2011

Left-leaning party rises as Canada vote redraws map

FEATURE

05/04/2011
MONTREAL — Voters have redrawn Canada’s political map, electing as the official opposition a social democratic party that engaged the middle class and made deep gains in Quebec.

“It’s dramatically revolutionary,” Nelson Wiseman, a political science professor at the University of Toronto, told AFP.

Projections showed the New Democratic Party, led by former municipal politician Jack Layton, capturing 43 percent of the vote in Quebec and more than 30 percent across the country in Monday’s poll.

It humbled its three rivals in all-important Quebec, which holds a quarter of seats in parliament, destroying the Bloc Quebecois’ separatist hegemony and routing the Liberal Party, historically Canada’s strongest political group..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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