Canada's election is actually getting some international press….criticism of Harper in both The New York Times and The Guardian.
http://globalnews.ca/news/2169258/stephen-harper-criticized-in-international-newspapers/?hootPostID=91a91894860cdfe4c5c05af22f9f3e09
This is quite a change from our first trip to Europe when the only news we heard about Canada in two months was an "international leap frog contest". It was a strange experience to feel you were from a country that didn't exist for the rest of the world.
