I’m not the only one with gripes about political analysis in the local press. Tim at K-Marx wonders why the Globe can get through an entire article on the Canadian elections without once mentioning the New Democratic Party (NDP), the third most popular and the party with the fourth most seats.
Today’s AP story does a little better, the New York Times story even better. But neither match the clarity of the rundown on the CBC site (Hat tip: David Eisenthal).
It’s times like this, though, that I wish my and other’s civics education were more solid. It shouldn’t have to be the onus of every article about foreign elections to give a lesson in how parliamentary governments are formed, or what a minority government means. I don’t even know what’s taught in schools these days, but a little less obsession about our bicameral, federal and three-branch government and more consideration of parliamentary systems that define most every other world democracy might be in order.
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