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Late Monday, in a cinematic middle-of-the-night upset, the Liberals lost of one of their safest seats to a Conservative challenger. Toronto-St. Paul’s hasn’t been held by a conservative since long before the modern Conservative Party even existed; its last Tory MP, a Mulroney-era Progressive Conservative, was defeated in 1993.