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How much is that democracy in the window?

Sometime around the last federal election it became conventional wisdom that a national vote costs about $300-million.

In fact, the last election came in at the low, low price of $280-million. To put that in perspective, that’s roughly equivalent to 1.4-million fines for violating the conflict of interest code for cabinet ministers.

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