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On November 5, 2013, a video surfaced online of former Toronto mayor Rob Ford telling a reporter, “Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine” (CBC News, 2013a). All at once, a surging interest in Canadian politics was born. Over the next several months, more videos of political content containing Rob Ford emerged, including one where he fails to throw a football, one where he bumps his head on the television camera, and one where he runs through the Toronto council room, barrelling over a fellow councillor like a bowling pin (CBC News, 2013b). All of this political news landed Rob Ford a guest appearance on latenight talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live in which Kimmel glowingly praised Ford for having “tripped, bumped, danced, argued, and smoked his way into our national consciousness.” Into the consciousness of both the Canadian and American populace Ford had entered indeed, and as Kimmel acknowledged to his audience, Canadian politics had never been less “boring” (Jimmy Kimmel Live, 2014). North Americans, it seemed, were suddenly strangely united in their engagement with Canadian politics. This newfound political engagement was exemplified six months later when a clip from a September 23, 2014, episode of the CBC political talk show Power & Politics, Image 1: Paul Dewar photoshopped into Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”

The Internet and Canadian Politics: Journey into the Absurd