VIDEO: John Oliver Tries to Make Americans Care About Canadian Politics
The "Last Week Tonight" host realizes that many Americans are uninterested in the election taking place in Canada on Monday, so he gave us a plethora of important (and some of them funny) reasons to pay attention to what our northern neighbor is up to.The “Last Week Tonight” host realizes that many Americans are uninterested in the election taking place in Canada on Monday, so he gave us a plethora of important (and some of them funny) reasons to pay attention to what our northern neighbor is up to.
—Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata
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