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O Canada, we stand for heat for thee

In the midst of one of Canada's coldest winters in recent history, Stockwell Day (Public Safety minister, and a man who had too much personality to become Prime Minister) has been catching flak for his mockery of global warming. This in a country whose main problem (besides one language too many) is that it's too damn cold.

Particularly cute was the Green Party leader:

Green Party leader Elizabeth May said she wasn't surprised by Day's comments.

"Mr. Stockwell Day sums up what David Suzuki said about parliamentarians, that they're all ignoramuses,'' May said in a telephone interview.

Then presumably if May were elected, she would also be an ignoramus. Not that that would be a change, mind you.

Day's comments reflect his ignorance about his own portfolio as minister of public safety, May said.

"The most significant threat to Canadian security is climate change, not terrorism.''

How's that? Because the country that provides Canadian security (the US) would fry? Or because of the hordes of Yanks buying time-share condos on Great Slave Lake?