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[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

This is not a political cartoon, until you get to james_nicoll's description of it:

"From left to right, Canada's Scandal Plagued Prime Minster Stephen Harper, Toronto's Crack Using Mayor Rob Ford and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, a personal friend of Ford, a close associate of the Prime Minister and a close pal with tax avoidage expert and Mint Chairman Jim Love. There is no reason to think Flaherty is uttering threats to the photographer."

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[hardblue.livejournal.com]

And Canada thinks they are so much better than us. :p

Er ...

[ed-rex.livejournal.com]

... not anymore!

[ice-hesitant.livejournal.com]

Federally, maximum donation to a political party is $1,100 a year in Canada.

It's illegal for corporations and unions to make federal political donations.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Oh, but that can change...

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

And if we get sick we don't also go bankrupt.

I mean, among a great many other reasons. We're stuck with an American-style election system, though, and it's temporarily fragmented out of the two-party steady state that American-styles inevitably produce, which means our roughly 35% "ideology trumps reality" bloc[1] is currently the largest single bloc in enough ridings that our 65% "something more sane, please" majority loses out.

Hence, y'know, Harper and Ford.

[1]: Compared to the roughly 50% American version of same, I'm also just saying.