Yes, they're toast:Leader Shawn Graham's Liberal party will form a majority government in New Brunswick. Projections show the Liberals may take 30 of the province's 55 seats.
Graham will end seven years of Tory rule with a narrow victory that provides him with a small majority in the legislature.
Graham's win caps four weeks of carefully scripted campaigning during which the leader deflected critics by cautiously sticking to the Liberal promises of job creation and better seniors care, and pointing to costly decisions made by the Tory government.
Bernard Lord and his Conservative team failed to convince New Brunswickers that experience, low taxes and balanced budgets are good enough reasons to reward them with a third term in government.
The NDP, under rookie leader Allison Brewer, who lost in her home district of Fredericton-Lincoln to Liberal Greg Byrne, has so far failed to elect a member and has lost four per cent of the popular vote, almost half of the party's overall support, compared with the 2003 election.
Cya later, Lord.
'At age 38, Graham becomes one of the oldest premiers recently to win the job.' Our country is being run by youngsters, apparently!
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