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GATINEAU, Que. — It has been said the best argument against democracy is talking to the average voter for five minutes.

Mark Holland has probably had some sympathy with that sentiment during his time as co-host of the electoral reform town hall, currently going nationwide.

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The Liberal parliamentary secretary was reprimanded at one point in the evening by a gentleman who said he didn’t like the way things were being run.

The urge to tell him to sit the hell down and remember who’s in charge now must have been overwhelming. But this is a listening exercise, so Holland acceded, wearily, to his request.

Perhaps he took some consolation from the knowledge that nothing the man said will have any impact on the policy the Liberal government will eventually introduce.