Conservatives and Liberals. Colloquially known as the Tories and the Grits... but the current Conservative Party of Canada can't really be called Tory, imho; really they're rebranded Republicans. Anyhoo, the problem you're having is that while I'm quite familiar with the major personalities in U.S. politics since at least Nixon, you've not a clue about the major personalities in Canadian politics... beyond maybe Trudeau and Mulroney. There's a lot of history there, and some good stories. But, when I talk about Flaherty (current Minister of Finance of Canada, former Minister of Finance of Ontario, which happens to be my home province) you've not idea who he is or what he's like or his style, so when I call him a lying sack of shit who never met an accountant's angle he didn't like and a poor person he didn't like to kick, you've got zero context into which to put that statement.

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