<div dir="ltr"><div>That was great!  I especially enjoy how it is FPTP that is the scary electoral system now.</div><div><br></div><div>Jenn<br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font size="2">Bookkeeping Services</font></div><div><font size="2">519-501-2736</font><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:10px;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal"><span><font color="#888888"><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,new york,times,serif"><span style="line-height:10.9091px">No other Western democratic country concentrates as much political power </span></span></font><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,new york,times,serif"><span style="line-height:10.9091px">in the hands of one person as Canada does with her Prime Minister. </span></span></font></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 8:20 AM Ellen Papenburg <<a href="mailto:sagittaep@gmail.com">sagittaep@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">I enjoyed that article.  Thanks Mary! <br><br><div>Ellen <br><br>(via my android phone,  typos may occur)<br><br>    </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 9, 2019, 05:09 Mary Jackes, <<a href="mailto:mkj@bell.net" target="_blank">mkj@bell.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <p>"One of the few other European states to have FPTP is that other
      celebrated bastion of democracy, Belarus."</p>
    <p>lots of comments on this article.  I haven't read them all, by
      any means, but I especially liked this comment.  However, although
      it was easy to establish that Belarus is really <u>way</u> behind
      in the democracy stakes, it seems that it has a two round system. 
      It's really hard to be knowledgeable enough to get involved in
      conversations.<br>
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    <div class="gmail-m_7575596290307705531m_289660093106968829moz-cite-prefix">On 6/9/2019 8:45 AM, Mary Jackes wrote:<br>
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