That is incorrect:

The Agreement does not apply to US citizens or habitual residents of the US who are not citizens of any country (“stateless persons”).

I’m not a lawyer, but that website says that this treaty is about asylum seekers declaring themselves as refugees in the first country (out of the two) where they land. Refugees can’t pass through the US en route to Canada, and apply as a refugee in Canada (and vice versa).

Americans (citizens or habitual residents) can still apply as refugees in Canada, according to this treaty.

Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: XIGNCODE3

Monitoring the full file system is a nope from me. I get that they want to protect their game, but there are non-invasive ways to do that.

I’ve been thinking about this a bit since I read it this morning, and I think the only reason they were able to get rid of STV is because it was only STV for Calgary and Edmonton. With a single party still able to sweep the rural ridings, they were given solid majority governments, which shouldn’t be the case with “real” STV.

I have no idea how we’ll get either half of the LPC/CPC to enact STV, when FPTP has them oscillating between consecutive usually majority governments, but I expect STV will be hard to get rid of once we’ve had a single election with it. Not much incentive for minority partners in a coalition government to accept moving back to FPTP, right?