Today marks the two year anniversary of Stephen Harper’s election win. This is notable because nobody thought his minority government would last this long. Only one has lasted longer since World War II and no Tory minority had ever even celebrated a one year birthday before. Hell, I remember the media stories about the PMO opening a bottle on wine when they passed Joe Clark’s 273 days.

So Canada’s New Government now enters the terrible twos. I doubt it will see a third birthday but, as just mentioned, you never know…