They say a week is a long time, in politics.

For those of us who live in Australia or Canada—or if you’re a citizen of both countries, like me—this has been a very long week indeed.

Monday was the Canadian federal election, in which the Liberal Party of Canada pulled of the seemingly impossible and came from almost certain defeat to nearly winning a majority government. And here in Australia (as I write this), polls are about 2h from closing in our federal race as well. It’s not nearly as contentious, but potentially just as consequential…