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Political Rights

1. Small Political Parties Regain Standing in Elections

So, do you remember the Rhino party? Remember how fun it was to vote on a ballot that had them and a couple of types of commies and, jeeze, sure the Liberals and the Tories always got in but it sure was fun to pretend that anyone could get elected. That was until the dorks in Ottawa decided that small political parties should be banned. That is right - for the best part of my adult life most small political parties have been effectively bannded from participation in Federal politics. That is over now and we can thank the Commies for the lessons in democracy now enforced care of the Supreme Court of Canada.

IN addition to big ruling, here are links to a number of other resources about political rights:

Big Ruling Follow-up
More on the case...
Human Rights Decision
PEI takes another big step forward into the 20th century...