Groundhog day: There’s an awful lot of similarities between Election 2015 and 2004

The 2004 election marked a shift in Canada’s political ideology. Canadians swung further to the right of the spectrum under consecutive Conservative governments. 2015 sees us in a remarkably similar situation. Can the Conservatives continue the swing or, like any pendulum, will the opposition parties be able to force the swing back?

In Groundhog Day, Bill Murray famously quips, “do you ever have déjà vu, Mrs. Lancaster?”  To which Mrs. Lancaster replies: “I don’t think so, but I could check with the kitchen.”  For many avid political watchers there is a sense of...

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