In case you missed it – the law was changed last year to allow Canadians who haven’t lived in or paid taxes in Canada for decades to vote in the federal election despite the fact none of the political decisions impact them.

Because the majority of people in every other western democracy clearly are but what about Canada?

Despite unequivocal evidence from successive auditor generals that billions of tax dollars are wasted there are no shortage of people who call any savings in how we administer and deliver government programs a catastrophic cut.

Go figure. Or maybe you can’t. The feds say that they want to phase out the oil sands but don’t seem to have any trouble subsidizing Bombardier’s jet and the big automakers cars.