Harper on Fox Business News

The more of these I see, the more of a sense I get that Americans are very impressed with our Prime Minister.

Must be refreshing to talk to a leader and not get an earful of the usual drippy platitudes and political double speak, but rather straight forward candor and intelligent conversation.

UPDATE: In an online article by Alexis Glick, who conducted the interview with PM Harper for Fox, and which includes video, she writes:

"Immediately after I talked to the vice chairman of the Swedish central bank, I interviewed — in a “First on Fox Business” — Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper about a lot of things: Everything from his meeting with President Obama last week, to NAFTA to the “Buy American” clause in the stimulus to carbon emissions and the Canadian Sands to the banking system. Why has Canada’s banking system withstood the financial crisis while other countries banking systems like the U.S. are in such dire straits? In 2008, the World Economic Forum ranked Canada’s banking system the healthiest in the world. The U.S. was ranked 40th. Canada’s system has much stronger federal regulations and lower mandatory leverage ratios. Canada’s firms never engaged in subprime mortgage lending. For over a decade, Canada has posted budget surpluses; only in the last quarter did they enter into a recession. What is working? What lessons could we learn from them? Take a look. Prime Minister Harper is very impressive." [my emphasis added]