Most things Italian.
Plus I shop kosher.
When it is on sale.
That said, I don't want Canada's democracy to fall into the pattern that Italy had before electoral reform and Silvio Berlusconi's charisma changed the face of their elected houses and Israel has, that being repeated elections that come up with minority government after minority government.
Tom Flanagan, Tory operative and poli sci prof at the University of Calgary writes in today's Globe and Mail that the cycle of minority governments "...could go on for a long time...the NDP winning 20 or 30 seats...Bloc winning 40 or 50, it's almost impossible for either the Liberals or Conservatives to get a majority...there just aren't enough seats in play for either to win 155...for the last five years [government] has been a condominium project of the two big parties."
The one good thing about this Liberal-Conservative, Conservative-Liberal sorta coalition is that it is not, like in the Israel's Knesset, a case of the tail wagging the dog.
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