A look back at a decade when Canada shifted from blue to red GlobeDebate
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.From 1867 on, our federal governments have alternated between Conservative blue and Liberal red. There’s never been another colour in the palette.
Based in an ascendant West, where the oil sands were booming, the Conservatives seemed poised to go on a two-decade run of their own. The Liberals were going in the opposite direction. They had cycled through three leaders in three elections and lost seats in each one – plummeting to just 34 in 2011. There was open talk of uniting with the NDP, which under the late Jack Layton had grown into the Official Opposition.
Then the 2015 vote happened, and now here we are at the end of the decade looking at a new Liberal dynasty and wondering whether the Conservatives have a future.
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