A BIG WIN FOR CANADA’S CONSERVATIVE PARTY. Maybe the G.O.P. should take a few lessons?

UPDATE: Ilya Somin: “Canadian libertarians tell me that Harper and his Tories have serious flaws, and I don’t doubt it. But the Conservatives north of the border sure look a lot better to me than either American party does right now. Their policies are probably more pro-market than those of Bush’s ‘big government conservative’ GOP. . . . In addition, the Canadian Conservatives don’t have nearly as much of a social conservative/religious right streak as the Republicans do. And libertarians have to give at least a little love to a prime minister who took a lot of flak for cutting government subsidies to the arts – a goal the Republicans weren’t able to achieve with their campaign against the NEA.”