Lessons from a Canadian election

We Americans don’t generally pay much attention to The Great North. Canada is only on the mind when the Blue Jays are in the playoffs, when we laugh at the late, great John Candy (a Canadian, eh) in Planes, Trains and Automobiles , or when we long for a doughnut and a Moosehead. You hockey fans are an exception. Canada just completed one of its longest election campaigns in its history – a whopping 79 days! What, you say, they ran a national campaign in … what, less time than it takes Joe Biden to decide to run in a national campaign. You can do this political business in an intelligent and competent manner and not spend two full years doing it. Really, you can/ Marc Johnson , The Johnson Report. More here.

Question: Did you know/care that Canada was staging a national election?