or rejected ballots.

"I've never heard of that," said Ahmed Salem, who was sitting on a bench on the grounds of the Ontario legislature on Thursday.

Duff Conacher, co-founder of Democracy Watch, is trying to spread the word that Ontarians can decline their ballot on June 7. He says that would send a direct message to political parties that voters didn't like their options. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)

The 26-year-old, who works near Queen's Park, said he does want to vote on June 7. "But as of right now, I'm confused about who to vote for," he said.

Salem said none of the major party leaders are inspiring him. Voters choose a local candidate in their riding to be their MPP and the leader of the party that wins the most seats willloved the limelight, my guess is that he greeted the war’s end with deep-seated sadness. It was all such a waste. If only the upper classes had followed him in the 1930s and resisted the Nazis. Now the civilization that he relished lay in ruins. The age of empire was over.

Lew Lehrman, an author who frequently appears in our pages, is well aware of the problems the allies faced both at the beginning of the war and toward the end. The English-speaking people were alike in many ways, but they were also vastly different. America was deeply isolationist, they were impatient with the British and other European empires, also America contained ethnic pockets that actually hated the British — my grandparents among them. What is more, in the