Speaking of Canada, turns out they too are holding a seemingly crucial election. In fact, by the time you're likely reading this, it will be over and done with, and according to early reports, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party are celebrating re-election.

I'm not at all sure what that means because I don't know anything about Canadian politics. If it's anything like British politics (also a Parliamentary system), all parties are actually a lot closer together on the ideological spectrum, and the silliness of American arguments on issues like abortion, gun rights, and whether or not the Constitution should define marriage, are total non-issues to a modern and forward-thinking nation. But like I said, I don't know.

So, let's talk logos, shall we.

First up, the Conservative Party. With their bright blue and big C, they look more like a junior league hockey team than a political party, I'm afraid to say. This logo doesn't evoke in me a sense of conservatism, prestige, old-fashionedness, upper-class-ism, tradition, or anything other synonym for conservative. Nor does it represent nutcase religious folks, who almost all consider themselves conservative here in the states.

The Big C

While it's clear that the Liberals are Canadian, I don't learn anything else from their logo. Are they progressive, dynamic, energetic, elitist, and the party of change? Maybe, but with that block faux-italic Clarendon-esque typeface, they aren't telling me.