I don't give a rat's ass what a Canadian thinks about the elections in Iraq. The UN needs to go.
Igualamente.
Even most Canadians aren't aware that if a nation is holding its first elections as an emerging democracy it's a fair bet that Elections Canada helped pull them off. We've been doing this for years as our voting system is pinheaded simple (simple procedures, paper ballots, no Rube Goldberg-esque voting machines, not tied to any one political entity). Iraq was no exception, but of course our weak knee Liberal government kept quiet lest they be accused of "helping the Americans in Iraq.
As an aside, former Ontario Premier Bob Rae (who has been remarkably non-partisan since leaving politics, especially for a lifelong democratic socialist) was a key advisor to the Iraqi group that wrote the constituion, specifically as it applied to the division of powers between the central government and the regions.