Elizabeth Renzetti has a great piece in this weekend’s Globe and Mail on the British Government compelling the parents of yobs (unruly youth) to take parenting courses… all in the name of law, order and improved community, of course. The specifics of the piece are less interesting then its overall significance – what the cutting edge of the “nanny state” looks like in action. If this is how the rubber hits the road for ‘the third way,’ who would implement it here? The Libs? The Conservatives?