Depart, I say, and let us have done with you.

Canadian politics has been uncharacteristically interesting lately. The minority Conservative government (which picked up seats in Parliament in 2008 even though they received fewer votes than in the 2006 elections) was about to be ousted from power on Monday by a coalition of opposition parties: the Liberals (the left-center party), the NDP (the left-left party), and the Bloc Quebecois (the angry french guys party). Today Prime Minister Stephen Harper bought himself and his party some time by suspending Parliament for seven weeks. Or to be more technically correct, he convinced Governor General Michaelle Jean (Canada’s ceremonial head of state and representative of Queen Elizabeth) to suspend Parliament for him. Foreigners are weird.