May 26, 2009
Now why can't we have politicians like this
From Canada's The Vancouver Sun:
Governor General eats raw seal heart to support hunters
Canada’s Governor General began her Arctic tour by gutting a freshly slaughtered seal, pulling out its heart and eating it raw, according to media reports.
Michaelle Jean, the Queen’s representative to the country, did it as a gesture of solidarity with the country’s beleaguered seal hunters, the reports said, adding that Jean expressed dismay that people would call the traditional hunting practices inhumane.
After eating the heart during a stop in Nunavut’s Rankin Inlet, Jean wiped her blood-soaked fingers with a tissue.
On Tuesday, Jean arrives in Kugluktuk, Nunavut.
And, here she is speaking before the Senate and delivering this observation:
'Today, we meet at a time of unprecedented economic uncertainty. The global credit crunch has dragged the world economy into a crisis whose pull we cannot escape,' Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean read in the speech from the throne Monday in the Senate.
A classy lady and a good politician.
Posted by DaveH at May 26, 2009 11:06 AM | TrackBackComments
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