I am sorry. I have been unkind to New Brunswick. My coverage here is far too thin. When people say it is the highway to Maine, I laugh a little. When CBC held a late '70s Canada Day broadcast from every one of Canada's nine provincial capitals...because someone in Toronto forgot New Bunswick, I laughed a lot.

Well, you can forget that anti-New Brunswick stuff around here tonight because this is election night in Canada's neighbour to Canada's Ocean Playground, the other home to Canada's potato sector...or industry...and when last I looked the whole place was in a deadlock:

...the house standings were 28 Progressive Conservatives including the Speaker, 26 Liberals and one Independent.

Update: They threw the bums out! Sorta:

Graham ended seven years of Tory rule with a narrow victory Monday night that provides him with a small majority of seats in the legislature. But in a mathematical quirk, the Liberals won more seats than the Conservatives while receiving a smaller proportion of the popular vote. The Tories garnered 47.65 per cent of the popular vote to the Liberals' 47.00 per cent.

Graham told CBC that it was clear that New Brunswick voted for "a bold, new, activist government."