By Sniffles
Although he resigned as foreign minister some weeks ago now, we cats suspect that Maxime Bernier is moonlighting for the Canadian embassy in Washington. Because the embassy issued a Canada Day party invitation that was so stupid, we're sure that only Monsieur Bernier — who's not known as the brightest bulb in the chandelier these days — could have thought of it.
The invitation showed a picture of Samuel Champlain, the founder of Quebec City, holding a plate of poutine. Ha. Ha. Ha.
Now the embassy is apologizing to French-Canadians who may have been offended. And quite frankly, we wouldn't blame them if they were.
We cats have never had poutine — preferring to stick to our Canadian favorites like confit de canard (yum!). But we're quite certain that the cultural contributions of French-Canadians go far beyond a plate of French fries with cheese curds and brown gravy.
Can the Harper government can do anything right these days? Somehow we don't see the Tories rebounding in Quebec anytime soon.
We HISS at staff of the Embassy of Canada, for doing what Conservatives are evidently so good at — insensitively typecasting and labeling an entire group of people.
(Photo: FXCuisine.com)
2 comments:
Poutine has sometimes a bad press, but to associate it with the great Samuel de Champlain is really tacky, worthy of a bad sitcom and not a diplomatic institution. But Harper and co seem to consider diplomacy and ministerial responsibility as a joke these days.
Dear Guillaume,
We couldn't agree with you more. It would be like the U.S. Republican Party doing a campaign ad or a fund-raising invitation that depicted Barack Obama eating watermelon. (Although we don't put it past the RNC to come up with something like that!) As for considering diplomacy a joke, we suspect that Mr. Harper has learned at the feet of the masters (Bush/Cheney). Does Harper have Karl Rove on speed-dial?
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