Alberta: My Kind of Province

28-0 sweep for the Conservatives in the province of Alberta, that reddest of red provinces. Not as convincing a victory as I would have liked, but I'll take it.

Monday's election gave the Conservatives 124 seats, below the 155 needed to form a majority. The ruling Liberals won 103 seats while the left-leaning New Democratic Party won 29 seats. The Bloc Quebecois, which campaigns only in the French-speaking province of Quebec, won 51 seats.

Steve Harper now gets to play Mulroney to W's Reagan. Here's hoping that on domestic issues, Harper gets closer to Mulroney than W has gotten to Reagan's vision of a smaller, less intrusive government.