The federal government will do away the law that prevents TV networks from broadcasting election results from any time zone where the polls are still open. The 1938 law has become less and less enforceable for all the digital reasons we know. Even before the insidious tweet, email had made a joke of this stricture. The intent was to prevent the completed results in the east from influencing western voters. That power, if it ever existed, seems to be long gone. This is especially so following the growth and maturity of the west since the time of Pierre Trudeau. Once one hits the Manitoba border, he’s dealing with people who know what they want based largely on their position on the Pacific flank of the nation.
