this is the great irony, right?

the tory establishment in canada just spent the last twenty years doing everything it could to get rid of the country's liberal traditions, to scatter it's voices, and to essentially convert the party into a "progressive conservative" party - even going so far as to win the son of the party's glory years over to the cause of red tory obama/clinton style moderate conservativism.

they finally get their stooge in place...

....and the republicans elect a liberal president.

now, they have no idea what to do, because all the liberals are gone, under the bus.