Canadian Politics

Skippy often analyzes Canadian politics in ways that may be interesting to his more literate readers. Those readers will have to make their own Skippy link dump.

Saturday, January 17, 2004
GEORGE W. BUSH, A MAN AMOUNG MEN

Wednesday, November 16, 2005 2:02 PM
This summary of Quebec politics from November of 05 is a good place to start for those of us who only read about Canadian politics when there's dick jokes involved. Money quote: Unlike in the rest of Canada, leadership races in Quebec are downright fascinating. In English Canada, your likelihood of becoming the leader of a major political party is directly proportionate to your ability not to clash too much with the furniature. In Quebec generally - and the Parti Quebecois specifically - you can be a guy who lives under a bridge and talk about nothing but the war that God and the Devil that is fought entirely in your own skull and be assured a spot on the second ballot.