Let us also have a brief round of applause for our neighbors in naming their parties straightforwardly. The conservative party is the Conservative Party, and the liberal party is the Liberal Party. No other large English-speaking country can say that. They also apparently have the red and blue assigned correctly on their maps, judging by this Canwest story, unlike the backward color code that has become fixed in U.S. politics in the last few elections.

So what does this mean for crime? The Conservatives are undoubtedly the stronger party on crime issues in the Great White North. The claim of the Liberals that they would restore capital punishment is surely overblown, although it is good to see that argument got them nowhere with the voters. Even so, the Conservatives are much less likely to give us static about it, as previously noted here. Perhaps they might start extraditing murderers without demanding inadequate justice sometime in the future.