As someone who attended university in Canada, I have since considered it one of my missions to correct the popular image of Canada as a place where everyone runs around being polite and giving each other free medicine and just progressing all over the place in general. Whenever Canada acts as dumb as the rest of us North Americans everyone seems surprised. They're just as lunkheaded up there as we are- just maybe more timid, and let's not forget there aren't very many of them.
Want proof? Two words: Brian Mulroney. If you don't remember him, look at some old pictures of Ronald Reagan. See that face permanently affixed to his ass? That's Brian Mulroney. Add to that Canada's history in regard to its native population, the pollution it sends us across the Great Lakes, and the fact that nowhere have I seen more crazy people sleeping on the street than I have in "Toronto the Good", and you begin to wonder how Canada has fooled everyone for so long.
So, yes, Canada elects conservative. Gasp. Shocked expression. Our Canada? That Canada? Whatev.