Is it really possible for the Tories to win a majority in 2015 after five years in government? Perhaps they need to look at the Conservatives in Canada, who won their majority in the 2011 elections after two elections where they won a minority government.
But the way the party won this majority was partly down to its active courting of the New Canadians – new migrants to the country from al over the world. Canada’s largest city, Toronto is probably the most diverse in the world, with half of its population from ‘visible minorities’. New Canadians tended to be supporters of the centre-left Liberal Party until a few years ago, even though their values – entrepreneurship, lower taxes, common sense law-and-order policies and a love of liberal democracy – sat more happily on the right of the political spectrum.
Having been in power for the majority of the 20th century, the Liberal Party of Canada was for many decades a catch-all coalition.
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