So, the Canadians ousted Conservative PM Stephen Harper pretty decisively last night. Despite the possibility of a minority government, Trudeau and the Liberal party won 184 out of 338 "ridings" or districts, allowing them to form a government without help from Bloc Quebecois or the New Democratic Party.
Having written the above with some authority, I don't know what this means for Canada, except that the Liberal party takes a much more aggressive stance with regards to global warming. Remember - for a moment - that the GOP is the only major political party in the developed world that outright denies the human impact of global warming, so this is a matter of degrees.
Still, this could have an impact on the Keystone pipeline and other aspects of the tar sands and shale gas boom.
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