Wow! given the polls this is a great result. i did suggest that something was amiss and the Bloc vote has to be looked at as a disapointment.

I wrote weeks ago that at 140 seat minority is really a majority.

What an awesome result, given the performance of the opposition parties. More telling will be campaign debt, the Liberals and NDP will be be so far under as to be laughable, especially Dion. He still hasn't paid off his last campaign so I doubt he will be contesting an election any time soon, same for Jack Layton.

A strong minority will be just as effective as a small majority. Mission accomplished. I'm glad the conservatives won. When you are doing a good job you get to keep it and make it stronger. Layton wanted stroger leadership, he should have been careful what he wished for, Stephen got it, not Jack.

As to Dion, back to the drawing board, Added bonus, Garth Turner was blown away completely by his conservative opponent, a real classy lady with some business sense. The political Gods of justice have done some good work it seems.

All the parties got an injection of fresh blood like a transfusion. Lets hope thery have their heads screwed on right and work as a team for the betterment of Canada and keep Canada a safe harbour amid the world economic storms ahead.

Thanks for all of your hard work over the past few years. Your efforts made a big difference and I believe played a key role in last night's results.

I live in London and am proud to say we were able to bring a solid urban riding under the blue tent with Ed Holder! It was a fantastic night for us.

Irene Mattheyson the returning dipper in neighbouring London Fanshawe was shooting off her mouth about how the minority means that Harper has to now LISTEN to other parties and all that our views count stuff.

Isn't that a little rich given they are still the 4th party in the commons?

Isn't it also a little bit the other way around as well? I mean given the big gains in Ontario doesn't Harper get to say, now you MPs in the other three parties need to listen to us a little bit more as well?

I think he is well within his right to govern as a majority would and use confidence votes to force the other parties to abstain or vote along.

I heard another talk show with Bob Wood our former conservative MPP in London West. Blowhard Wayne Eizenga president of the liberal party was saying that Harper couldn't just play the confidence card all the time and Bob set him straight saying it was a fundamental of how our system worked that the ruling party has every right to ask for confidence on many issues especially in the minority situation.

I guess the opening shots show no-one other then Dion is willing to work together thus proving that he migh tbe a hell of a lot smarter than credited for being. We all know he is intellectually strong just not that electable. I'll say it here first. Watch for him to lead the Liberals to another defeat. He will play the good soldier and lead while the Liberals try desparately to get back on their feet financially and otherwise.

I just can't see anyone new on the scene and Rae and Ignatieff become a liablitiy after 3 or more years of prudence

Jack Layton said he didn't win the gold medal. No, he finished out of the medals. If Layton only knew his vote came from Liberals, as did the Tory's, he could have been leader of opposition. Think of it, if he took 10 - 15 more seats from Libs, and he didn't hand Liberals 5 -10 Tory potential seats by swinging votes to them, he could have finished second.

Mr Layton said he was running for prime minister, to deny Mr Harper a majority government. He lost the first battle, but won the second. In the process, he failed in a more doable mission to supplant the Liberals as the second party in Canada, to put in place the foundation for a future NDP federal government (one can dream right?). Instead, he tried to skip a step.

His wreckless miscalculation consigns the NDP to again occupy only the fringe of Canadian federal politics, greatly weakened in the next parliament.