It has been a tough week for the hard left in Canada, and the lessons apply throughout the West. Green parties are not going anywhere in the polls. The public has caught on to the toxic individuals that run the parties and the movement in general, and they are not buying in. Snake oil sales are down. Nowhere was that more evident that in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan's election this past Monday. The resident Green Party received just 1.8% of the votes, its lowest share in nearly 15 years. Perhaps even more telling was the repudiation of the far left New Democratic Party (NDP) in the province. It received only 30% of the popular vote, its worst showing since 1938. If anything, the laws of political science should have seen the NDP's vote share increase dramatically. The province's economy has been slowing for a couple years, unemployment rates are rising rapidly, the government finances are in deficit, and the centrist governing Saskatchewan Party had...(Read Full Article)