I’ll write the key points of the story and you can stop reading when you as a normal Canadian stop giving a rat’s poutine about this story.
It’s the quintessential picayune French-Canadian—actually, all-Canadian—useless political bureaucratic elite in action story, as seen from up there with the picayune progenitor of this story, Jean-Paul Perreault, the president of Imperatif francais, sitting atop his high horse (le cheval). Please picture Perreault wearing hockey skates and a jock strap and a goofy helmet and he’s saying “eh” a lot, and he’s holding a plate of poutine. Read on.
Here we go.
The Canadian Embassy in Washington put an online invitation up for Americans in Washington to attend fun-filled happy Canada Day celebrations down there on July 1 in America. The fun-filled invitation depicted Samuel de Champlain, the founder of Quebec City, and here comes the baaaad part…. he’s holding a plate of poutine.
Oh the humanity.
My only problem with the invite is that it depicts an icon from The Nation Of Quebec / la nation de québecois instead of a Canadian one; and that he is holding a symbol of The Nation Of Quebec / la nation de québecois weirdness, instead of one of our many Canadian ones—even that asinine “eh” thing that idiots propagate.
Now here are some actual quotes from the Canadian Press article:
• Perreault wants Prime Minister Stephen Harper to offer “sincere” apologies nationally and internationally…
• Perreault also said Foreign Affairs Minister David Emerson and the ambassador in Washington should resign…
• “There should also be disciplinary measures towards the employees who created an unacceptable and ridiculous situation on the website,” he added…
And here is the headline, as if you couldn’t have guessed it in advance:
Canadian embassy in Washington apologizes for controversial Canada Day invite.
Golly I hope he did it in French and English.
The additional famous Canadian humor comes in this line which you should read remembering that the invite was for Americans:
• Perreault also complained that the invitation was sent out on the Internet only in English.
Voilà.
Canadians now appear 60-80 times more asinine than they did before.
Merci.
(la pointe de chapeau à Maureen)
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