Commentary Political party conventions are very strange events. Your special ID opens a mysterious portal into a twilight world of frantic resolution debates, rabble-rousing speeches, anxious caucusing, and generally a whole lot of bad coffee, adrenaline, and pamphlets that the rest of the country watches with… uh… hey, we’re having a convention, can I interest you in subclause 3? And yet they are strangely revealing. Canada just had three major conventions that were even odder than usual because they were virtual. Which come to think of it isn’t odd anymore. And may actually have made the conventions more like real life than usual. Though it’s not saying much. For my sins and eccentricities, I’ve been to a fair number of these conventions that participants find so exciting they actually look forward to them. And I confess to finding their mystical air of unreality grotesquely fascinating. Several times a day you …