• sweetgemberry@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Thanks for explaining this. It’s interesting to see how US politics are affecting Canadian vote shares. Is that a common thing or is it an isolated event given what’s going on in the US at the moment?

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      It’s interesting to see how US politics are affecting Canadian vote shares. Is that a common thing or is it an isolated event given what’s going on in the US at the moment?

      Allow me to illustrate with a quote from former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau:

      “Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt,”

      That was part of a speech he gave at the Washington press club in 1969.