Canada has been rocked by another guerrilla pie-ing. This time the hapless target was Albertan Premier Ralph Klein, who has threatened to invoke the notwithstanding clause in the Canadian Constitution to keep gay marriage out of Alberta should it be approved on a federal level. The CBC reports:
Klein had just started his address at his annual breakfast at the Calgary Stampede and Rodeo when a man who appeared to be in his 20s hit him with the pie.Klein recovered quickly, remarking that the banana cream pie tasted "not bad."
This is not the first time a Canadian nabob has been creamed with a pie to the kisser. Jean Chretien himself was splattered on Prince Edward Island in 2001 (PEI...An anagram of PIE. Cute, eh?). And who can forget, just months ago, the double-pied assault upon Quebec Liberal Leader Jean Charest, now that province's premier? And there's more. The Quebec-based Entartistes claim, through their spokesman 'Pope Tart', to have pied 15 to 20 Canadian politicians over the past five years. Is a wave of sweet, creamy insurrection sweeping over Canada? Will l'Internationale des Anarchos-Pâtissiers spread appetising havoc from sea to shining sea? We can only hope.
Oh, and by the way...gay marriage is now legal in British Columbia, too.
Posted by aloysius at July 08, 2003 11:49 AM | TrackBack |