Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its secon… - Stephen Harper

The Bloc Québécois is equivalent to your Southern secessionists, Southern Democrats, states rights activists. The Bloc Québécois, its 44 seats, come entirely from the province of Quebec. But even more strikingly, they come from ridings, or election districts, almost entirely populated by the descendants of the original European French settlers.

We also have no history of colonialism. So we have all of the things that many people admire about the great powers but none of the things that threaten or bother them.

The predecessor of the Reform party, the Social Credit party, was very much like this. Believing in funny money and control of banking, and a whole bunch of fairly non-conservative economic things.