Northern Neighbor

Most Americans probably don’t even know that Canada has an election today, but I’ve been reading with trepidation some of the Canadian news sites over the last few days.  I know I have a few Canadian readers and I have one question for you: WTF?  Are you guys really going to elect a Bush-lite pretty boy as prime minister?  I know the Liberals kind of screwed up and could probably teach our Republicans a thing or two about corruption, but I can’t imagine that Canadians are all that eager to inaugurate a conservative government that seems ready to wage the same culture wars that we’ve been fighting here in the United States.  We American progressives have long looked to Canada as a model for the kind of economic and social policies that we dream about implementing here.  Don’t start letting us down now.