Vote by mail becomes sudden issue

The question of voting by mail in this fall’s municipal election has suddenly blown up into an issue. City hall decided not to push for enlarging postal voting – as with everything else, it has to get Quebec’s permission, and Quebec wasn’t going to make the option available in time – and Denis Coderre’s crowd, as Philippe Teisceira-Lessard writes here, “ont déchiré leur chemise” about how unfair this is to old people etcetera.

If we thought Lionel Perez tended to turn every minor issue at city hall into a big weepy emotionfest to get media attention, it’s nothing compared to what he’ll do now Denis Coderre is back.

Once again, blog readers, I am sorry that news this year is going to be Covid and Coderre all the time.