A poll done in 2015 showed that 78% of Canadians couldn't even name their MP, so you know they walked in to vote and blindly checked off the party colours and didn't know a fig about their actual candidate. What does personal character, honesty, and integrity matter in a system where we reward the right colour of tie more than we do holding those characteristics?

If you want to see a good politician, witness the politician that gets members from all parties to attend their funeral or the funeral of someone close to them. Mulroney, Chretien, and other party leaders were all at Broadbent's wife's funeral in 2006.

It said volumes.