It was 81 years, of course. The post was copied from one posted elsewhere 9 years ago.

Volunteer some time, even an hour is a big help. You can door knock, you can do phone-banking, you can help get out the vote on Monday, and you can be a scrutineer. Please take real, concrete, helpful action if you possibly can in the next few days. Canada and everyone in it depends on it.

If you can & have the time (I recognize that not everyone does), the most important & productive thing you can do in the next 4 days (inc voting if you haven't already) is to actually help your local Liberal candidate.

There's only one Mr Macro! Our Mr Macro.

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Modern Language Association. There's an MLA style guide, which is often used for papers in the liberal arts and humanities.

(Yup, keeping track of all the acronyms can be mind-bending. 😄)

Thanks!