Whoa! Canada! (Washington Post)

イラク戦争不参加、マリファナ合法化、同性結婚など、リベラルな路線へ進むカナダと、保守化傾向の激しいアメリカとを対比した面白い文章。

The news from Canada is just a little disorienting -- no, shocking -- for Americans. Depending on your view, isn't America supposed to be the cradle of the coolest, most cutting-edge culture? Didn't we invent civil rights? Alternatively, if such so-called cool culture is corrupt and these "rights" wrong, at least by golly we're supposed to get to Hell first.

Now Canada is leading the way.
And America is looking fussy, Victorian and imperial.