Canada's vote against change

last updated 8 January 2015

Here's a bit of good news for conservatives this election season, said Ed Morrissey in Hot Air. Canadian voters gave Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative Party "a much stronger minority government" in Tuesday's elections. The result will bolster one of the "most stalwart members of the NATO coalition" in Afghanistan, and show Canada's neighbors to the south whether a tax-cutting agenda can ease the financial crisis.

Harper won't have long to make the win count, said The Economist. He'll face a new U.S. Congress and president, and if Barack Obama wins there will probably be a review of the North American Free Trade Agreement, "on which Canada depends." No wonder "some pundits are predicting that the new government will not last long."