Sabato’s Crystal Ball: How Canada’s politics differs from the United States

by Louis Jacobson

TORONTO — Recently, I had the opportunity to do some reporting in Canada. In my career, I have written about U.S. politics for more than three decades, but until my visit, I knew little about the dynamics of Canadian politics. So when I crossed the border, I wanted to learn about the subject from square one.

It was an education.

I visited with political experts in Toronto, Hamilton, and Waterloo—all cities in Ontario—and I emailed with several others elsewhere.