yeah... in Brazil, you are forced by law to vote, so you are forced to become aware of the political parties, etc. It doesn't help that there are 27 or something of them! But it has been good in the way that politics was always talked around the house and it just becomes a part of life. And I'm really proud that we elected this year a president that doesn't stand for Bush's shit and is actually trying to get a lot of poor countries together into a kind of "club"... but if I were from Canada I might also not pay too much attention to politics... it's so quiet over there.