The Washington Post reports here that Stephen Harper, leader of the Conservative Party, has won reelection as Prime Minister of Canada. Harper had hoped for an outright majority of the 308 seats in Parliament, but fell short while improving his party's position by something like 17 seats.
If, as is expected, Obama wins in the United States, he will soon be the only liberal among the leaders of the G-7. How ironic. Germany, France, Italy, Japan and Canada all have conservative leaders now and the U.K. is expected to go conservative at the next general election which will likely be in 2009.
