The Liberals Who Can’t Stop Winning

Forecasters predicted that the Liberals would win 35 seats in the country’s 343-seat Parliament, compared with 236 for the Conservatives. Instead, the Liberals are set to win at least 155—a plurality larger than they had before. Whatever adjectives American progressives might use to describe Democrats—feckless, weak, pathetic—the Canadian Liberals are the opposite. The Liberals went on to win two more elections, in 2019 and 2021, and to pass even more progressive legislation. But the Liberals are an electoral machine—something of a rarity on the center-left—that would be foolish to bet against.