Obama's America, getting better or worse? He promised change - now we are getting it.

[richardhutnik]

HappySqurriel said:

richardhutnik said:

lordmandeep said:
Actually if you take away liberal Quebec, Conservatives control 70% of seats in English Canada and around 45-50% of the vote.

They are quite dominate apart from Quebec and Newfoundland and PEI.

How do Canadian conservatives differ from American ones?  Do the conservatives in Canada want to eliminate national health care, privatize their equivalent to Social Security, or shrink the national government to the size of a bathtub so they can drown it?

Canadian conservatives are far less religiously motivated, want sensible laws that are fairly enforced with reasonable punishments, are ideologically dramatically more fiscally conservative but fairly moderate in practice, and want to reform our broken healthcare system to include the private sector to be more in line with the less expensive and better quality care of many countries in Europe.

In terms of size of government, they would (mostly) want to decentralize the government and get the federal government out of issues that are clearly within provincial jurisdiction.

Seems more pragmatic then.  It seems the wings in America are far more interested in burning things down and blaming the opposition than elsewhere.