The ballot as the ballot question

With elections being messed with in ways democracies are just beginning to fight, maybe protecting the process itself should be the ballot question.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pictured at a Liberal rally in Ottawa on Oct. 11. With less than a week to go until the election, there’s no consensus on the ballot question. Lisa Van Dusen writes that maybe it should be about the survival of the system that enables this process.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

October 16, 2019

The first election campaign I spent on a plane was the first one in which I was eligible to vote. It was 1984 and I was the very junior, third press aide to Brian Mulroney. As baptisms by fire go, it was a slightly bumpy ride at the back of the plane, but the guy on the other side of the bulkhead wo...

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