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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper told thousands of mourners the nation was deeply grateful to a soldier killed by a gunman in Ottawa last week. Mr Harper spoke at a funeral for Cpl Nathan Cirillo, 24, who was shot by Michael Zehaf-Bibeau while standing guard unarmed at Canada's war memorial. Zehaf-Bibeau, 32, then entered Canada's Parliament and fired dozens of shots. Mr Harper choked back tears as he addressed Cirillo's five-year-old son, Marcus Daniel Cirillo. "May time ease the searing pain of today," Mr Harper said. "And may [Marcus] some day find comfort in the fact that our entire country...

At the Democrat Party presidential debates last Tuesday, Barack Obama revealed that he didn't know that our Canadian neighbors to the north had a prime minister instead of a president leading them. Yet the MSM has practically ignored this obvious gaffe, with few of them making much of the incident. This is a far cry from how Bush was so virulently attacked for having no foreign policy "gravitas" during the 2000 campaign. But for a Democrat in 2007 it's pass time. Nothing to see here, folks, keep moving. In response to a trade question during the debate, Obama said he'd...

Stephen Harper, Canada's new prime minister, unveiled his Cabinet last week and promptly found himself denounced for unprincipled expediency and hypocrisy. The same Steve Harper, who had said he would appoint only elected senators, chagrinned his supporters by choosing an unelected top-flight Montreal businessman as his first senatorial appointment. This was Michael Fortier, who had helped mastermind Harper into the Tory leadership and helped deliver 10 unexpected Conservative seats from Quebec in the January election. He will be minister of public works. The same Steve Harper who had deplored the desertion of zillionairess Belinda Stronach last year from his own...

Canadians brought about a minority Conservative government on Monday by electing a House of Commons in which 60 percent of the members will be out to destroy it. That is, they gave Prime Minister-elect Stephen Harper's Conservative party 124 seats, outgoing Prime Minister Paul Martin's Liberals 103, the socialist New Democratic Party 29, and the Bloc Quebecois (whose declared purpose is to take Quebec out of Canada), 51. There was one independent. As soon as the results were in, Martin announced that he would not lead the Liberals in another election. The Conservatives formed a government that 36.3 percent of...

"Our national identity was not forged by government policy. It does not flow from any one program. ... Our Canada is rooted in our shared history, and in the values which have and will endure."