As the decade wanes, Dan Arnold of CalgaryGrit fame is having a contest to determine the top Canadian political moment of the past ten years.  Here are my ten nominees in no particular order:

• the Right Unites
• Gays marry
• the ADQ becomes the number one political party in francophone Quebec, and then dissolves within two years
• Canadian soldiers fight (and die) in Afghanistan
• Newfoundland and Labrador becomes a one-party state
• the Sponsorship scandal explodes
• GG Jean pulls the plug on Parliament and the coalition breaks up
• Paul Martin clearcuts the Liberal Party
• the Tories create a beachhead in Quebec (and the NDP gets a toehold)
• the U.S. economy gets pneumonia, Canada catches a bad head cold