I mean seriously. And the rest of Canada isn't. OK BC and Sask. have definite right wing tendencies, but BC has Vancouver/Victoria and Saskatschewan is North Dakota north.
The best the (Neo)Conservative Party can probably do in Canada under the current rightist leadership is about 30% of the vote. No other party comes close to being ideological compatible enough for them to form a majority government, even if the Liberals were to fuck up enough. Thus, Canada continues to have no real opposition because the opposition remains, in Canadian terms, an out-of-the-mainstream sectional party of rightwingers that can't win votes east of Winnipeg.
But why, in the first place, has the nation got to the point where Alberta has 2 Liberal MPs and 26 Conservatives (if memory serves correctly), whereas Ontario, before the election last summer of the already scandal-plagued Martin-led Liberals, had something like 100 Liberal MPs and 5 Conservative. The now even more scandal plagued Liberals currently have a 43 to 31% lead over the Tories in Ontario. So in other words, a Conservative minority government is essentially out of the question.
So what gives? Why is Alberta so right wing? It can't just be the oil and the legacy of its relationship to the federal gov't vis-a-vis natural resources. There seems to be a profound ideological split akin to that between Anglo and Franco Canada.