The Canadian election - the Marquess of Queensberry would have approved.

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In looking back at the 2012 charity boxing match between Canada's new Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and now-disgraced Conservative Senator Patrick Brazeau, it's hard not to see it as a foreshadowing of last Monday's political events.

In each case Trudeau's opponent was a Conservative tyrant and bully. Brazeau was a literal bully, with convictions for assault and cocaine possession and an acquittal on a charge of sexual assault, who now works as a bouncer at an Ottawa strip club. Stephen Harper was an ideological and dictatorial bully whose beatings of Canada's women were no less egregious for being "merely" social and economic rather than physical.

In each case Trudeau came into the game as a 3-1 underdog, vastly underestimated by his opponents because of his background and physical appearance.

In each case Trudeau walked out with a knock-out. In the boxing ring he delivered a third-round technical knockout of Brazeau, and in the political ring he knocked Harper out of the game with a come-from-behind decimation of the Conservative Party.



And in each case he was embraced by his supporters with a passion that threatened to burn down the House. The photo shows Justin's wife Sophie replenishing his inner fires after the match; in the political ring, the Canadian electorate handed him their hearts on a satin cushion as they rebuked Harper.

National morality plays don't come any cleaner than this one.

Harper's fall from grace is probably best illustrated by the fact that today the mayor of his city is a Muslim, the Premier of his province is a socialist, and the Prime Minister of his country is a Liberal with plans to legalize pot.

And nothing says hopey-changey like a 43-year old Prime Minister with a modern ideas, a good left hook, great hair and a Haida tattoo...

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1. Marquess of Queensberry

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2. "And nothing says hopey-changey like a 43-year old Prime Minister with modern ideas,

a good left hook, great hair and a Haida tattoo..."