Krauthammer: Canada Didn’t Move Left, Only Opted Against Single-Party Governance

KRAUTHAMMER: Look, this was not a revolt of the angry in Canada. In Canada, they don't get angry. I lived there. I know it. Maybe in a baseball game they will throw a beer can, a Labatt, from the upper deck. Other than that, they don't get angry. It was a cyclical election. People are making it as if it was epochal election. Harper had been in power three elections in a row. That never happens in Canada. He outlived his welcome as a happens with any government in power for 10 years. And what happens in a parliamentary system, they have the British system, first-past-the-post on every constituency, is that it exaggerates the difference in the vote. The winning liberals got 39.5 percent of the vote. Less than 40 percent. The losing conservatives, who got shellacked, got 32 percent of the vote. That's not a huge spread. I think it's a perfectly normal reflection of a changing mood in the country. Trudeau is not a Bernie Sanders. He is a centrist. He supports Keystone but he is not going to go to the wall on it; he supports the burning of the oil sands, which the left in his party is against. He has indicated he is going to support the Trans Pacific Partnership, the trade deal with Asia that the left and the right -- some of the right -- are up in arms about here. He is he a centrist. Liberals have control of the government in Canada, almost continually, I think for the vast majority of time." 
BAIER: "He also has suggested that he may pull Canadian troops out of the effort against ISIS and out of U.S. coalition partnerships." 
KRAUTHAMMER: "He is not going to participate in the bombing. But he said last night they pledge to participate in the training of Iraqi forces. So he is in the fight but he doesn't think he wants to be in the air campaign."