Yay Canada!
Poor Canada; forever ignored and when it’s not ignored forever patronised. Except when the Quebeckers become fractious, Canadian politics and life barely merits a mention in either the British or American press. We even tend to overlook the Canucks when the stories of the Great Wars of the twentieth century are told. How soon Vimy Ridge slips from consciousness. But Canada has plenty going for it (even if most of the Canadians I know don’t actually live in Canada). So, three cheers for Fareed Zakaria’s latest Newsweek column: Guess which country, alone in the industrialized world, has not faced a single bank failure, calls for bailouts or government intervention in