Speaking of Politically Correct
The phrase, "there's probably no god, so stop worrying and enjoy your life", has been deemed too offensive to appear in public by Ottawa City Council - the same city council that allowed the owner of a falling down building to tie up the city center for months last year (the building is still there, the sidewalk unusable by pedestrians) while police were paid around the clock to sit in idling cars to keep watch on the whole mess and buses were re-routed to inconvenient locations - AND - the same city council that caused a bus strike and then allowed it to continue for more than two months, in the middle of winter, with negotiations being scheduled weeks apart even while people lost their jobs, homes, minds in the worst economic crisis to have hit Ottawa since forever.
Meanwhile, the Mayor of Ottawa, a New Conservative if ever there was one, is alleged to have bribed another politician to drop out of the mayoralty race in which he won his job, and is scheduled to go on trial in the spring. But, in true New Conservative form he's got lawsuits on the go against the local CanWest newspaper (which should be a no-brainer for success, but it's owned by the Aspers) so it's more like he won the election fair and square nowadays. It's sort of like how the federal New Conservatives managed to get away with bribing Chuck Cadman, lying about it, suing the Liberals for publicly exposing them for lying about it, lying about it again under oath in court but nevertheless managing to win an election called to circumvent democracy (is the number of stupid Canadians going up naturally or through immigration, I wonder) before dropping the lawsuit and rendering the Liberals (for some reason which remains unclear - mostly because nobody's investigating it) impotent on the entire matter.
All very politically correct indeed. Good luck seeking justice in Canada against politicians with pockets deep enough to launch lawsuits, Canadians.
