That's a good pre-amble for this piece I put together for Canwest which is hitting the Web now and might be in the odd newspaper tomorrow: Minority Governments May Become the norm for Canada OTTAWA -- For all of its modern history, Canada has been shaped by the politics of language, by the divisions of les deux nations. But last week's census release of the ethnocultural portrait of Canada underlined a political divide that has been hardening for nearly a decade: There are the country's three biggest cities - Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver - and then there is the rest of Canada.

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