With the announcement that Liberal leader Stéphane Dion will be stepping down, what can we expect in the future? Well, the Conservatives are not the Liberals. A Conservative majority or even minority government in Canada tends to be the exception rather than the rule even though it is difficult to think of the Libs as the Natural Governing Party these days. Conservatives like Mike Harris and Ralph Klein easily won majorities when they talked and acted like real conservatives. The chance of a federal Conservative leader doing that is extremely remote.
