Canadian Elections

There are elections comming up in the great white north on Monday, the 28th. There is a nice roundup on the subject at the Spectator.

Recenty, I observed that the future of many elections in the world will involve one party tacking pro-American (as in United States of) and the other party tacking against. To a certain degree it has always been so. But where in the past, the less American party premiced itself on "where with America, but..." now in the absence of the Soviet threat, there is no need for this prepratory clause. As I refer to earlier, I disgaree somewhat with VDH on his assessment that Europe is no longer an ally. I look back and see resistance in Europe during the Cold War by parties of the left, and by France on a range of issues. Without the Cold War, this division will become more obvious and more serious. For that reason alone, keeping an eye on foriegn elections will be an important duty for the aware citizen.

The Spectator article mentions a website Canadian Ally dot com which makes the case that Canada is not France. In many ways, this is part of the divide between Quebec and Western Canada as much as it is between left and right. Its easy to look at the government of countries like Canada and Germany and see problems, just as it appeared that Spain was with us before the Madrid attacks. But the Candian right and Western Canada in general are always more sympathetic to notions of "free trade, individual liberty, and military might" and they always are, even when governments of the left get to do the talking.