The opening post describes Rosie DiManno as "one of Canada's foremost columnists."

As a Toronto Star columnist, she may be one of Toronto's foremost columnist, but she has no profile beyond the greater Toronto area. But of course, people from the GTA think that all that matters in Canada begins and ends in the GTA.

Defining Obama as conservative or right-of-centre in the Canadian context might have been true in the Trudeau-era, but we're long past that now. Given the the centre's shift over the past 20 years, and particularly in the past 10 years, Obama would be comfortable with policies of the Liberal Party and most of the policies of the NDP.

In the context of today's Canadian politics, when Stephen Harper defines the right, Obama would be slighty left-of-centre.