News from Canada

The big news while I was up in Canada is that Steven Harper, the Prime Minister, isn't really the stuffed shirt that he seems to be most of the time. Here he is performing an old Beatles song, and Holy Cow! He can actually sing! And he even sings the original words, "I get high with some help from my friends."


Ps. He's a Conservative, but by American standards, he's a communist. Gay marriage was legalized across Canada under his watch, and he's made no effort to dismantle the single payer health care plan that most Canadians think works reasonably well. And he's a wuss because he's committed to pulling Canadian troops out of Afghanistan in 2011.