The Oh, Hello and

welcome to Behind the News, my name is Doug Henwood.

Two guests today, Roon Mueller-Stahl,

a Danish political scientist, will talk about the left's victory

in Denmark's recent elections.

And at the bottom of the hour, the law Professor Heidi Matthews will talk about an official

panel's finding that Canada's brutal treatment of its indigenous population amounts to genocide.

On June 5th, Denmark held a parliamentary election.

Parenthetically, that parliament has 179 members for just over 5 million people.

Our house is 435 members for 329 million people.

If our House, and I'm leaving aside the Senate here

because it's such a ridiculously undemocratic body

that it shouldn't exist, where proportionally

as large relative to population as Denmark's parliament is,

it would have over 10,000 members.

If Denmark's legislature recised proportionally to ours, it would have just seven members.

Back to the Danish election. It was won by a

coalition of left and center left parties with the Social Democrats in the lead. The head of

that party, Meta Frederickson, is likely to become the Prime Minister.

The Danish People's Party, a right-wing anti-immigrant formation that was one of the pioneers

of that sort of politics in Europe, took a shilacking with just 9% of the vote.

A third what the Social Democrats caught, and not that much more than the Red Green Party, part of the

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