Democracy is expensive—and so are the elected officials who make that possible. That’s good.
A British Columbia legislator is on a quest to end free lunches for some politicians—for the sake of democracy, we should hope he fails
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David Moscrop
David Moscrop is a political scientist and a writer. He’s currently working on a book about why we make bad political decisions and how we can make better ones. He’s at @david_moscrop on Twitter. He lives in Vancouver.
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