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Chris Selley: We have solved the Long Ballots problem, and it didn't take a committee

Canadian decision-makers in other fields might want to study this shockingly simple and intuitive solution

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Readers, I bring glad tidings: Canada has solved a problem, and solved it well.

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Don’t head to the fireworks store or plan a parade or anything; it was quite a simple problem. But Canada lets all kinds of simple problems fester and fizz without hardly lifting a finger to address them, so I do think it’s worthy of note, if only to prove that we can, and should, solve simple problems.

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And also because some people in Ottawa seem determined to “solve the problem” much less elegantly.

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