Put priority on pandemic poll preparedness to avoid repeating N.L. mishap on federal scale

The rules for safely conducting a federal election during a pandemic haven't been approved by Parliament and should be paramount before any more talk of a general vote nationwide after seeing how quickly things can turn in Newfoundland and Labrador.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

February 17, 2021

If talk of a spring federal election hadn’t already cooled as much as the temperatures nationwide, this past weekend’s chaos in Newfoundland and Labrador definitely would have provided the needed cold water. With less than 11 hours before voters were set to head to their local polling places on...

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