This didn't make news in the liberal media to their south, but Canadians just voted in a Conservative majority into their parliament. Looks like the statism that threatens to take over the world is running into some serious road blocks. Britain is in love with austerity these days. Now Canada. From Reuters via Yahoo News:
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, now backed by a powerful parliamentary majority, said on Tuesday the energy sector can rest easy that his government will not impede plans to vastly expand the country's oil sands output and ship some of the crude to Asia.
Harper, in his Western Canadian home base of Calgary on the morning after his Conservatives won big in the federal election, singled out the Western-based oil industry as being a beneficiary of his party's pro-business agenda, which will also include corporate tax cuts and deficit reduction. Investors greeted the result with relief.
If only the U.S. would get with the program. We now have the highest corporate taxes in the world. Our government refuses to allow our natural resources to be exploited. And the country is deep in debt. Hopefully our next elections are as successful.
Congratulations Canada.
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