Sometimes, the Government Doesn't Even Need To Be Asked
Just ask Dudley George or the Montebello protestors, or anybody currently being sued by the New Conservative Party Government of Canada. Anyway, for what it's worth:
BecauseWeWouldNeverCapitalizeOnIt
We are heartened by this independent, personal approach. Too often, the first instinct in such cases is to demand government do something: block the controversial performance, ban the protesters, launch a hate-speech investigation. But ultimately, nothing the state could have done would have been half as effective or satisfying as having 300 or 400 ordinary Winnipeggers take a few hours out of their Saturday afternoons to stand in quiet solidarity with the friends and relatives of Tim McLean, to let them know others care and to spare those already grieving the added indignity of a few extremist lunatics capitalizing on one man's grisly death.
Uh... did we mention that hate speech investigation? Oh. Yes. We did.
