Well I think Assange should be assassinated actually. I think Obama should put out a contract and maybe use a drone or something. There's no good com… - Tom Flanagan

But if politics is an art, it is not like sculpture or painting, where one side acts and the other is passive material. It is more like drama without a script, or dance without choreography - in other words, improvisation. Either player may surprise us again with a new move.

Public opinion can become polarized into a bimodal distribution with only a few people in the centre and many more lying toward the extremes. But under such circumstances, democracy will probably break down into civil war, and spatial models of party competition will be irrelevant until order is restored.

For the foreseeable future, Canada will have to be functionally bimetric, as well as a bilingual, country.