When you write a minister, a machine shouldn’t reply

A public figure can use Autopen, a signing machine, to offer the aura of personal touch without actually providing it.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signs the Paris climate change agreement on April 22, 2016 at the United Nations in New York. For a lot more mundane correspondence, politicians just use a signature machine.
KAMOURASKA, QUE.—In old Geneva, there is a lovely restaurant serving traditional Swiss meals, with an ambience that lends itself to fondue and raclette: wooden chairs, plaster walls and beamed ceilings. Outside, in a pride of place by the door is a letter, bronzed for perpetuity, from former Unite...

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