We Canadians worry -- often rightly, often despairingly (as if our very sense of self-worth were at stake) -- that Americans don't pay us any attention. I mean, I write The Reaction, a blog mostly about American politics and culture, but I wonder how many Americans pay similar attention to Canadian politics and culture. Not many, but I'm not sure I blame them. I don't even pay that kind of attention to Canadian politics and culture, although I pay more attention than most. (Gomery, anyone? -- no, don't bother.) At least I have an excuse -- I went to high school and college in the U.S. -- but, generally, such is life when you live right next to the world's single superpower.
How nice, then, to find that the Post -- that is, The Washington Post -- has published a piece on Queen Elizabeth's visit to Canada and its relation to an impending confidence vote in the House of Commons. It may not matter much to most Americans whether or not Paul Martin's minority Liberal government survives past the next election, likely just weeks away, but it certainly matters to us, and at least one of America's leading newspapers has taken the time to tell its readers our story...
on Page A12.
Woo-hoo!
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