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Chief Electoral Officer of Canada Stéphane Perrault, pictured Sept. 18, 2019, at Connaught Public School in Ottawa, says Elections Canada recently released three discussion papers on the issue of the overall regulatory regime that governs political communications in federal elections and says, 'events around the world are a constant reminder of the fragility of democratic institutions and our electoral democracy.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY STéPHANE PERRAULT

June 29, 2020

In July 1920, Canada had just come out of a world war and was struggling with the global Spanish flu pandemic that had killed some 55,000 Canadians. The Russian Revolution was casting a long shadow over Europe and democracy was about to be shaken off its foundations in a number of countries. In Can...

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