This Isn't What Democratic Elections Are All About

Published February 27, 2008

The Canadian government's decision to permit the election of a Canadian citizen in Italy's Parliament must have been written by a bureaucrat whose body may have travelled the world, but whose brain has never left the deepest hole in the Department of Foreign Affairs in Ottawa.

I've never been overly happy about the Italian government's decision to create "virtual ridings" in the five continents in order...

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