A World of Cheese, For your Pleasure

I suppose it shouldn't be much of a surprise then, when emotions ran high and things buried deeply came to the surface. When asked to arrange an interview with Ex-MP Yolande Thibault, her adviser said:

Yes, I'm sure it was just a case of post-loss Tourette's syndrome. During the campaign, Kotto was a respected opponent. If Thibault won, he'd be a respected defeated candidate. But Thibault lost, so now he's just a nigger that seemingly stole his boss' job. As though Kotto didn't deserve the win, although I personally would not have voted for the guy.

I don't know why this hasn't been a national story, truly, except that Canadians hate nothing worse than the fact that we have millions of racists working and living here in all levels of society. Canadians do not want to hear this story. They want to believe that we are a peaceful nation full of love and acceptance and puppydogs. To expose our faults is to undermine the projected Canadian identity with the truths of those hurt by bigotry. (I should try to find something less historical and more contemporary, because I do not want to imply that this stuff is all in the past.) And I wrote about loving this country. It's still true, but, ugh.

A funny story, unconfirmed but reprinted here: When Olivia Chow, former Toronto city councillor and current wife of Jack Layton, was deciding whether to run for the NDP or not, CTV Newsnet's closed captioning of the story ran with this embarrassing typo: "Chow is chinking of running." Chow is of Chinese heritage. And she lost.