by Rick Lowe
As Latin America shifts to the left in several countries, Canada, for the first time in some thirteen years. See thisCBC News Story
The seat count in Parliament, while still a minority government, looks like this:
Conservatives 124
Liberals 103
Bloc Quebecois 51
New Democratic Party 29
It is unusual to hear words like these from a Canadian leader:
On Monday night, Harper promised to get to work implementing his top campaign priorities. He said his first act in Parliament will be to propose a federal accountability act.
That will be followed by his plan to cut the GST, provide a child-care allowance to families, toughen criminal sentencing and establish a patient wait time guarantee, he said.
This could be start of something good for Canada.
Unfortunately some of our neighbours in Latin America have chosen the other path for a while. Too bad they have not learned from history.
