Canada's Political Culture?

Dems are "right wing" compared to Canadian politics? I want some of what you're drinking. The Republicans are roughly ogous to the Tories (and contrary to your question, the Tories are just slightly less stringently conservatove than are US Republicans). The Dems and the Grits see pretty much eye-to-eye, and we here in the US are not cursed by any monstrosity vaguely like the NDP, thank God.