Canada, with a minority Conservative government, barely felt any recession and the economy is really quite good. Any unemployment tends to be voluntary.
Canada, with a minority Conservative government, barely felt any recession and the economy is really quite good. Any unemployment tends to be voluntary.
The Conservatives were rewarded with a majority government recently and certainly have the support of the Canadian people. It is a very business friendly government, much like the United States used to be.
Founding Principles
A few points:
1) "Conservative" in Canada is the equivalent of a hard-core Marxist to the quasi-conservatives here in the US. Don't consider this an insult or derogatory, it's just that to the American right-wing, anyone to the left of SIGNIFICANTLY right is a lefty. Hell, by today's GOPer standards, Jesus Christ would be mocked as a librul and Ronald Reagan would never have even gotten close to getting the Republican nomination.
2) Canada didn't destroy it's federal revenue streams.
3) The Canadian government funds national health care.
4) The Canadian government funds most of its major universities
5) Canada doesn't blow most of its federal money on a military-industrial complex that has to start conflicts every now and then or risk their OVERBLOATED budget being cut to respectable levels.
6) Canada's population is just slightly above that of the state of California.
There are other differences but those are just the ones off the top of my head.