# The "Longest Election Campaign in Modern Canada" Thread

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [August 2, 2015, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-election-campaign-in-modern-canada-thread/726807 "2015-08-02T15:45:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-longest-election-campaign-in-modern-canada-thread/726807/867 "2015-10-25T02:36:28Z")

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> [@RickJay](#):
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> I would have to nitpick that artificial fertilizers are not necessarily bad for the environment and have probably saved billions of people from starvation. So that’s good.

Look up phosphate-induced [algal blooms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algal_bloom) and get back to me, Pollyanna.

In any case, what you’re calling “artificial” fertilizers are made of mined phosphate, and that supply will get more expensive and scarcer. Feeding people a fossil resource is unsustainable.

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