We’re having our own election here in Canada on November 27, and our company is even doing some work for one of the parties. Happily, it’s the party that I support. Most interesting about this election is the emergence of the Marijuana Party, who are fielding candidates in 70 of the 301 national ridings (electoral districts). One candidate stated that if Canada decriminalized possession of marijuana, that we would experience a huge influx of American tourists to “buy bud.” The whole thing makes me laugh, though. It’s as if someone had this great idea one weekend, but instead of waking up Monday morning and forgetting about it, they actually organized and followed through. It is funny to read some of the interviews with the candidates, though. One guy says he’ll be campaigning on marijuana, “in more ways than one.”
My favourite quote from the New Yorker article: “[Ev] has a beetling brow and a Tintin coif.” (Note: My own coif has often been compared to Tintin’s.)