Milk cartons here have public service announcements, like they do in the US. Sometimes it’s a poem. Sometimes it’s a tip for healthy living. And before the elections a few weeks ago, they sported get-out-the-vote messages. One of these said something to the effect that elections are a time for making “smart decisions”. Unfortunately, this message was nixed by the parliamentary overseers, who decided it had too much editorial content. The word “smart” had to go. So in the end, the cartons read that elections are a time for making “decisions”.

And who can blame the overseers? If people are supposed to make smart decisions when they vote, as opposed to, say, selfish decisions, or uninformed decisions, or spiteful decisions, they’d all have voted for the liberals.