The Conservative government of Stephen Harper scored a major victory this past week: the abolition of the long-gun registry that had been put in place by a previous Liberal government. The registry had always been considered an abomination and a colossal waste of tax dollars. After fighting the registry for almost two decades, it’s understandable, from the point of view of human nature, that the Conservatives should have celebrated that long-sought victory accordingly.

But Liberals and other left-wingers called this behaviour despicable and outrageous, not to mention a slap in the face of supporters of the gun registry. Well, that’s too bad, because the majority of Canadians have spoken, and they did speak up loudly when they voted for a majority Conservative government last May – specifically, it should be noted, to do away with such Liberal rubbish as the gun registry at long last.

Besides, celebrating a win over one’s opposition is always cause for celebration, and the Liberals have done so many times themselves when they were power – such as when they created the gun registry, or when they established Canada as a country where same-sex couples were allowed to get married. No one of the then-Conservative opposition criticized, or tried to deny, the Liberals’ right to celebrate. But that’s the typical double standard of hypocrisy that mars all lefties.

As Liberal MP Justin Trudeau’s recent outburst shows, when lefties lose an election, they don’t necessarily work harder, but instead blame their loss on the “stupidity” of voters. Consequently, they wish death and destruction on those who have abandoned them – in Trudeau’s case, the destruction would come in the form of Quebec separating from Canada and thus breaking up the country.

Whatever happened to the natural flow of taking turns at the main switch of government? For most of the 20th century, it was common for Conservative and Liberal governments alternating, with each one leaving its imprint on the country, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. The kind of government that pleases everyone all the time has yet to be invented; it doesn’t exist, nor is it possible. There will always be disagreement, even among the supporters of the party in power at the time. The Harper government, for example, has done, and continues to do, things that not all conservatives agree with. By the same token, when the Liberals brought in same-sex marriage, even many Liberals didn’t much care for the idea.

Left-wingers like the Liberals have only themselves to blame for voters’ reluctance to vote Liberal these days. For too long, the party felt entitled to power, but in the process lost sight of what Canadians really wanted or needed. Take a recent poll, for example, that found that an overwhelming majority of Canadians are in favour of bringing back the death penalty in some clear, and atrocious, cases of murder. Trends like this one keep catching the Liberals unawares and prove that they haven’t been listening to Canadian voters for a very long time.

Trudeau might not like it, but blaming Harper and the Conservatives is wrong (and shows what an intellectual featherweight Trudeau really is), because the fact that the Conservatives have a majority government today is not due to Harper’s doing, but due to what Canadians today want and expect. Harper hasn’t brainwashed millions and millions of voters. No, they made up their own minds about their country and the world in general, and have voted accordingly.

Some may say that Canadians have become more conservative. That may not be accurate, because a better way of expressing current trends in this country would be to say that Canadians have become more realistic and common-sensical. You might even go so far as to say that today’s voters have learned to think for themselves, rather than swallowing everything the Liberals, Canada’s former “Natural Governing Party”, would tell them that they had to think and feel.

In that respect, we, as Canadians, have every reason to be proud and to celebrate. It shows that we have matured and become more sophisticated. Even if, in some distant future, a left-wing party wins power in Ottawa, we’ll be able to accept and tolerate it as having been elected legitimately, because of our new-found confidence in ourselves and ability to take comfort in the fact that such a government would have been elected by voters who went to the polls with their eyes and ears wide open (unlike in the past).

Unfortunately for the Liberals, though, they have not reached the level of maturity to match that of the general electorate yet.