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Beyond The Commons

Beyond The Commons

Aaron Wherry covers all the goings-on in and around Parliament Hill. Follow Aaron on Twitter: @aaronwherry

Apathy is boring

by Aaron Wherry on Wednesday, January 6, 2010 1:44pm - 54 Comments

While TVO’s Mike Miner thinks at some length about the significance of it all, that Facebook group, as of this writing, has 65,000 members. Stephen Taylor, lead rallier for Canada, has helpfully set the magic number for democratically legitimacy at 127,000 members, the number drawn by his cause a year ago.

Meanwhile, a rival Facebook group, promoted by the National Post to demonstrate how easy it is to rally tens of thousands to your cause, has 120 members.

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  • Mike T.

    Still nobody gonna tell me what the court blogger's facebook group was about?

    • Lord Kitchener's Own

      It was the "Canadians Against a Liberal/NDP Coalition Gov't" Group. Currently it still sits at about 127,000.

      Boring assignment for anyone who's got way too much time: Go through both lists of members and see if you can figure out how many people are in both the anti-coalition group AND the anti-prorogation group. I know some people who are, and others who may not be, but whom I know would join both groups on principle, even if they haven't.

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