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Colby Cosh: Elections Canada’s banana republic plan to deregister parties

Last week the chief electoral officer of Canada, Stéphane Perrault, recommended that Canadian federal election law ought to be changed to allow for the deregistration of political parties deemed “hateful.” This was merely one of several recommendations in a statutory report designed to allow the CEO to recommend desirable legal updates, but on its face it would appear to be the most controversial and banana-republic-flavoured.

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