How J.D. Vance Brought US Politics to an Election in Durham, Ontario

How J.D. Vance Brought US Politics to an Election in Durham, Ontario

Mark Jedan was steamed. The sixty-two-year-old Bowmanville resident rolled up to the local Liberal candidate’s campaign office one morning in early April with a serious bone to pick. Jedan isn’t a political partisan. Who he votes for is nobody’s business but his own. “They’re all crooks to some extent,” he said grumpily. So why, he wanted to know, had someone planted a lawn sign for Conservative candidate Jamil Jivani on the boulevard in front o…