SIR - Your prediction that the new Conservative government in Canada will turn out to be quite wrong ("The Conservatives by a bigger head", October 18th).
The Conservatives, by a landslide.
The Conservatives, by contrast, can trade on their overall competence.
The Conservatives, by contrast, seem to want to tax only pensioners and those who need care.
So the conservatives, by pushing privatization, end up calling for spending more, not less, money.
Today, teachers support Labour over the Conservatives by a factor of five to one.
The Conservatives, by way of contrast, are not historically defined by any artificial schism.
In the end, the Social Democrats pipped the conservatives, by almost 9,000 votes and three seats.
If that is so, the conservatives, by blocking reforms clearly desired by the majority, are most to blame.
Labour lost the seat to the Conservatives by 2,316 votes after holding it for 23 years.
In the popular vote, the Liberals led the Conservatives by 7.1%, and by 13% in Ontario, the most populous province.
