Yesterday in my comments section Greg from Sinister Thoughts declared the Conservative Party of Canada radical and Robert McClelland jumped in to provide evidence.
Well timing is everything and Andrew Coyne provides some great fodder for discussion on this.
...I mean to value judgment by this. To say a policy is extreme is not necessarily to imply that it's a bad idea. I just mean that, among the array of possible policies on any given question, ours is consistently to be found at one end of the spectrum. Moreover, as often as not we are the only country to adopt such an approach.
Mr. Coyne then goes on to provide examples such as abortion,
...we have somehow convinced ourselves that the current absence of any restrictions of any kind - a policy vacuum that arose not by any deliberate act of Parliament, but as a result of Senate's failure, on a tie vote, to pass the last bill into law - is the very height of moderation.
Health Care,
...what was noteworthy was the evident shock with which many Canadians greeted this discovery [that most other western countries have a public-private mix]. They really seem to have been unaware that we are not the norm.
Same-Sex Marriage,
...Canada became the third country on Earth to legalize gay marriage - the third country on earth. Yet to listen to much of the discussion, uou would think that anyone with the slightest objection to this proposal must come from the lunatic fringe.
He provides a few more examples like the lack of debate on flat-taxes and the acception of "the right" to sucede, but the point is made. Radical depends entirely on your starting point.
The Conservative Party of Canada may be radical if you are own the left side of the Canadian political spectrum but in terms of other western democracies the Canadian left is about as radical as it gets.
