Harper calls snap election in Canada

Obama campaign connection?

Right now, Canada’s Conservatives govern as a minority party, but Prime Minister Stephen Harper thinks he can change that.

Why the early election date?

Harper, known to many in the Great White North as “Canada’s George Bush,” thinks his party’s odds will be better with a snap election now rather than waiting until after the U.S. November election, especially worrying that an Obama surge would migrate north to help Canada’s Liberals.