Nearly Everything About Canada’s Federal Election Sucked

Justin Ling
Cravenly stupid, frustratingly shallow
1 min readOct 18, 2019

Voters go to the polls on Monday to vote in an election so nasty, so depressing, so ugly that, honestly, Russia meddling in it might have been an improvement.

From the obsessive focus on superficial issues like whether Andrew Scheer is really an insurance wizard or not to Justin Trudeau’s blackface scandal to the distressing explosion of fake news and misinformation in the final weeks-this election has had it all, and all of it was horrible.

Elections suck. There are very few elections you can look back at and think “well, that went well.” Most are like an unpleasant party guest who won’t leave.

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