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William Watson: Let’s GoFundIt: Toonies for two-four (Sussex Drive) 

If Ottawa can't get a prime minister into 24 Sussex Drive by the end of this decade, it should give up its grandiose plans for the economy

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On his recent retirement show, 86-year-old Melvyn Bragg, host of BBC’s long-running podcast, In Our Time, used a nice phrase — “epidemic of incompetence” — that characterizes the way many of us feel about modern times. The New York Times’ Ross Douthat wrote last week about how “The crisis of the West isn’t about who governs, but that no one can.” Britain, channelling postwar Italy, seems about to dump its sixth prime minister in 10 years, which is even more prime ministers than the Edmonton Oilers have dumped coaches over the same period. 

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