The radio was on over breakfast this morning and I was excitedly querying whether the NDP would make big gains in next week's national election.
Sophie: What are you talking about, Mama?
Me: Choosing a government. The people who will make decisions for all Canadians. Decisions like how much money to take from us and whether to spend it on schools, doctors, armies, roads, how much we can pollute, which countries to be friends with and which ones are "misbehaving" (Sophie's new word of caution) and so on.
Sophie: Oh.
Me: What do you think should be the most important thing in choosing a leader?
Sophie: Whether they litter and clean up after themselves.
Not bad advice.
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