Colby Cosh has a column in today’s L.A. Times, in which he answers questions about the Conservative’s election win:
Is Canada still the progressive, socially liberal neighbor of Democratic dreams and Republican nightmares?
Can our mythic reputation as a cleaner, politer Europe survive incoming Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative regime?
Cosh’s answer?
In modern Canada, sexual mores are largely determined by the courts, which are dominated by buck-wild, porn-loving Liberal appointees…
In the U.S., one often hears that the Bill of Rights cannot logically apply to matters the founders never imagined; our Charter of Rights was passed in 1982, when 77% of legislators kept in their desks well-thumbed copies of Oui or Screw magazine. We’re in the clear.
(h/t: markc)