Mostly, that we have two or more, Liberalish parties (one called the Liberals, and one that’s even more left-wing and the Green party which occasionally gets a seat) that split the left vote, combined with, in the most recent round, the mentality that “we’re not doing so bad compared to the rest of the world and especially the US, economically speaking, so Harper must be doing something right! Let’s give him even more power by making him a majority gov’t instead of a minority one!” and delicious dirty tricks like conservative pollsters calling non-conservative voters and telling them, incorrectly, that their poll stations have changed.
The last especially makes be believe they have developed some sort of coating that makes scandal slip right off them.
