Non-voters get no respect, but they never hurt anybody

The implication is strange, that low turnout will somehow encourage Marxists to emerge from hiding and seize the telegraph station.

OTTAWA—Non-voters get no respect in Ottawa though they've got the whole town on its toes. Elections Canada counted 9,568,092 registered voters who failed to cast a federal ballot. Thanks to them no party got what it wanted, and Parliamentary Press Gallery pundits were left to wonder if they...

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