Go (Conservative) Canada! The Model?

A leader probably more pro-American than the American president, Stephen Harper wins a clear majority in the land true north of us. Why did he win?:

Because Canada is the only major economy to have come through the crash in good condition; because there has not been the surge in taxation, spending and borrowing that other nations have seen; because illicit migration has been brought under control; and because Canadians recognise that these things did not just happen on their own.

Harper's opposition was particularly appalling--a Harvard prof and sometime resident, and a loonie leftie whose party surged after he was caught in a brothel. Harper's winning ad: Strong and free.

More. Michael Barone:

Going into this election, center-right parties held some sort of on-the-cusp minority status in the four major Anglosphere democracies -- as the minority governing party in Canada, as a similarly situated governing minority in the United Kingdom, as the minority party (by virtue of a couple of independent MPs) in Australia, and as a House majority but without the Senate or White House in the United States.

Now the Conservatives are the majority party of government in Canada. An omen for the others?

And this: Gross: If You Want AAA, Buy Canada or Australia

Related posts: Kirk on Debt: We have been warned, Where's President WaldO on your gas price?, Thank CANADA

Previous post: The 9/11 Generation Does Us Proud