appointed by the Harperites decided to have him some fun with the Injuns. That's about their speed, as evidenced by the willingess to have the PM fly down to get Brenda Martin (a white convicted felon in a Mexican jail) while hanging brown muslim people (including mentally disabled young adults, women whose "lips looked different" and therefore required deportation from Kenya, etc etc) out to dry in various third world legal purgatories.

It's playing to their base, you see. I think it's designed to make sure they don't get the same result that Kim Campbell did after the Mulroney years (being reduced to a rump of two seats) by assuring themselves of the redneck bigot vote in certain pockets in the rural west and Ontario.

I should point out they can't get that vote in Quebec; by default they go to the Bloc, and esp. after the recent history in the Maritimes they've not got a prayer out there either. Personally, if the rural Ontarians have any actual self-respect, the first thing they should do is make sure that at minimum Clements and Flaherty lose their seats after the face-slapping with fish to their own base that they handed out in the run up to the recession, but we'll see whether that actually goes that way or not.

Furthermore, realistically they're supposed to be sending them vaccines, not body bags. That's the real scandal... the white towns are getting vaccines, the reserves are getting body bags.

...and considering some of the recent scandals up here around brown muslim Canadians guilty of no crime in other countries getting hung out to dry while private planes are sent to pick up convicted felons who happen to be white, I'm not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Let's just say that the Flatularity is simply as close the the Platonic form of that as one is likely to get.