Thursday, May 17, 2012

The Most Polite Ef Off You'll Hear Today

The sainted international community berated Canada for children going hungry. Canada. Seriously.

God bless them, the Canadians are having none of that. Their foreign minister, John Baird, defended Canadian domestic policies and also said:

There are, what, 193 members of the U.N.? I think most Canadians would think that spending 11 days in Canada on this issue - his time would be better spent elsewhere.

Of course, they didn't say children were starving, or anything. The article mentions "food insecurity," which I'm highly suspicious of as a concept with any real world relevance. In Canada, "food insecurity" probably means being more than three blocks from a Tim Hortons.

I really hope the foreign minister's retort was delivered in French, as well.