Abstract:
What might Australia learn from the Trudeau win?
Someone should really start up a tour business which consists of this: while staying in Seattle or Detroit or Buffalo, or any one of a dozen US border cities, you sign a release giving the tour business certain permissions. One night, while you sleep, they spirit you across the border, and you wake up in deep Canada. The experience would be overwhelming, bewildering. The accent would be the same (to non-Americans), the style of buildings similar, the convenience stores and chain motels. But the Queen would be on the money. The TV has several channels by the excellent CBC, their public broadcaster, full of intelligent news shows. Fish-and-chip shops abound. And the papers carry the vice-regal list, the record of the daily doings of the governor-general. Plus there are also bulk-billing medical clinics, functioning downtowns, frequent and efficient public transport.
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