This is NOT how I want elections in Canada to go!

[dewline]

I say "No thanks" to this:

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/968222--candidate-s-posters-defaced-with-rifle-target-symbols

Disturbing is perhaps too mild a word for this sort of behaviour. This is NOT how Canadian democracy ought to work.

Comments

[liabrown]

Despicable.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Very much so.

[jennawaterford.livejournal.com]

At least it was some random person defacing things and not, y'know, the actual other politicians printing up target maps of their opponents.

[black13.livejournal.com]

What Jenna said. This is not how democracy ought to work, period. Your people are taking the wrong lessons from the wrong Americans.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

It seems that way in certain parts of Ontario this week. Whether that holds for those neighbourhoods, much less the rest of the country? Stay tuned.