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Welcome to David Coletto's Polling Lab: Insights, observations, and public opinion data on Canadian politics, public policy, & society.I ask people questions for a living and love it.Chair & CEO of Abacus Data. Professor at Carleton University. Click to read inFocus with David Coletto, a Substack publication with thous

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The Pencil Problem

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (535+ words) On August 22, the Saturday after the talks fell apart, Mark Carney explained why Canada had left the table. One line in that speech has stuck with me. His government, he said, understood early on that America’s signature “was written in…...