Re attack ads:
The nice thing about having a higher quality education system is that when it comes time for the election rhetoric, or whatever you want to call it, it is likelier that a higher percent of the population is going to know when they are being handed a line of bull.
The ad I just watched about Jack Layton being blind with ambition, and power hungry, courtesy of the Conservative Party of Canada, was obviously one of the above. To anyone with any kind of realistic view, Jack Layton appears to be, by far, the least concerned about power, and the one leader dealing with issues, instead of trying to make the other guy look bad.
Now that's Canadian, and so is voting!
Bill Lytle-McGhee