The Thomas Mulcair-led NDP, only weeks ago poll promoted as election night winners, went down in disgrace to a mere 18.7%.
All this happened while Canada had the strongest and soundest banking system in the world, and of the world’s top industrialized nations, fared best in the 2007-2008 economic downturn thanks to the leadership of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Polls during the entire 11-week campaign portrayed a neck-and-neck, too-close-to-call nail-biter of an election that never happened.
When the chips were down, the Liberals came into power on a red wave.
What happened was similar to the 2012 Barack Obama victory over Republican Mitt Romney, with a poll-portrayed nail-biter election that turned into an 11th hour landslide for Obama.
Dubbed as “the national governing party” for their political longevity, the Liberals governed Canada for all of 69 years during the 20th century.
When word first leaked out that key Obama campaign workers had joined the Trudeau election campaign, the mainstream media continued to look the other way.
Stephen Harper’s goal of displacing the Liberals as Canada’s natural governing party came to a crushing end tonight, while the country he led for nearly a decade became a satellite of American President Barack Obama.
While Americans got a community organizer who began to systematically dismantle America in 2008, Canada will now be led by a part-time drama teacher who has never worked a day in his life.