Which Party?

The Globe and Mail has a voter analyzer for the upcoming Canadian election, which is interesting to go through. It is a common fallacy to assume that politics ever carries over perfectly across an international border. There might be general similarities between a Tory in Canada and a Tory in Britain, for instance; but there are going to be some stark differences. And so it is with every other country; each country has its own governing issues, and the political spectrum is generated by those, and not the issues dominant in another country. If you were to propose the elimination of private schools almost anywhere in Canada, to take a fairly small political issue, it would be regarded seriously even by the many who would disagree with the proposal, since in Canada it's not uncommon; if you were to propose it in the United States, most people would look at you as if you were proposing to abolish education, -- it's an extreme proposal. Private schools don't have the same role in the two countries, whatever the other similarities in educational systems. And so it is with many other things. I tend a bit Libertarian and a bit Green in my politics in the U.S.; were I a Canadian there is no question that I would fall squarely in the center of the Conservative party. I'm centrist in the U.S., leaning 'left' on some things and 'right' on others; in Canada I would be solid 'right'. The political spectra are just different. In any case, the analyzer gave me 6 marks for the Conservatives and 1 for the Bloc Quebecois.(HT: NWW)