The following are word maps which provide an interesting graphical view of the election 2008 policy platforms for each of the four largest national parties. The abundance of blank space in the Conservative platform word map is in fact indicative of the nature of their policy offering.

Attached to this post for posterity's sake, and for future research, are the platform documents themselves. Only the Liberal Party has, so far, taken their platform document off-line.

Conservative platform word map

Green platform word map

Liberal platform word map

New Democrat platform word map

If I were to editorialize I'd say the Conservative Party ought to have been first to withdraw theirs, as compared to the other parties' efforts, it's devoid of detail and includes a speciously worded section on "costing the plan" (page 43) which all will soon recognize as having been a larger fantasy even than Harper's dreams of a majority government.