Thursday, January 19, 2006

Canada Coming Rightward

On Monday, January 23rd, sometime in the late evening the Conservative Party of Canada will ascend to power in a potential landslide.
Understand, in Canada, like Great Britain, voters vote in their district, or in the case of Canada a riding whatever that means. There are 308 ridings and it takes 155 seats to form a majority government.
Judging by the latest polls, the Conservatives have roughly about 40% of the voters and the ruling Liberals have about 30% with the New Democrats (Socialists), Greens and others pulling up the rear. That should easily give the Conservatives 123 seats. They should easily pick up the 32 seats to form a majority government without having to form a coalition.
Stephen Harper, the Conservative leader, will become prime minister and the hostility that Canada has shown the United States should lessen.
The Conservatives are really a more or less moderate party but a vast improvement over the truly corrupt and incompetent Liberals.
We need a friendly neighbor to the north so that they can be a ally and not a thorn in the side in the War on Terror and in other aspects of mutual beneficial policies.
There is the false impression that Canadians hate the United States. Well, maybe in Montreal and Toronto, but the rest of Canada loves America.
The west and the prairie provinces would just as well be part of the United States.
But, with Mr. Harper and the Conservatives to the rescue Canada will turn rightward and that is good news for President Bush and the United States

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