Americans, though apparently impressed by ghastly sentimentality and outrageous hypocrisy, are by nature much more politically cynical than Canadians. In their longer history they have had much more to be cynical about. They demand a...

[Richard Bedford Bennett] was the richest Prime Minister and the only millionaire to hold office before Pierre Trudeau. His money obviously colored his thinking — colored it true blue — but he did not consider...

Other nations merely change governments as a lady changes dancing partners: Canada contrives to fall in a dead faint every time the music stops.