john northcott, welcome. so this was a surprise. >> yes, very much so. polls had it neck and neck for a while, and then in the few days before the election, there was a suggestion there might be a minority one way or the other, either for the conservatives or for the liberals. very few, though, even in the hours up to election day, and the results coming in last night, really thought that justin trudeau could get, if not a majority, then the majority that he got, the risounding majority, effectively, quinn it up ling his results from before. no party has ever gone from what is effectively third-party place to a resounding majority like that in canadian electoral history. >> woodruff: what happened last night? what changed? >> a number of things changed. it was the longest campaign in modern canadian electoral history. it allowed the electorate to get to know the candidates. in the case of the incumbent prime minister stephen harper, perhaps got to know him a little too well, to the point where dislike became a sharpened point of hate in this cases. as fo