Stephen Who?

Who's the Prime Minister of Canada? Anyone? Go on take a guess!

It's Mr Stephen Harper. 

Actually it's a bit unfair to mock as I am pretty sure nobody outside Australia knows the name of our PM either*. The great thing here in Canada is that the leader of the opposition is also called Stephen...well actually it's Stéphan Dion but the French never spell things properly. I think this is a system we should all copy, as both sides of politics are completely indistinguishable from each other now anyway they may as well be lead by people with the same name. 

They also have very sensible naming systems for the parties here. Conservative on the right - who want things to stay the same, or conserve them - and Liberal on the left - who want to change things and be more liberal. So much clearer than Liberals who are right wing, Labour who is left wing, but only sometimes and depending on the spelling, Democrats who are slightly less right wing and Republicans who are...well we all know what they are.

So next time you're in Canada wish Stephen and Stéphan luck in this year's elections.

*It's Kevin Rudd in case you've forgotten. Or 'Kev' to his mates.