How are you doing darling? Good to cyber cya!
From the poutine website above:
Do you recall this story to be true? It’s pretty funny.
**In 2000, then U.S. Presidential candidate George W. Bush was asked by a “reporter” how he responds to an endorsement from Canadian Prime Minister “Jean Poutine”. Bush replied, “I appreciate his strong statment.[sic] He understands I believe in free trade. He understands I want to make sure our relations with our most important neighbor to the north of us, the Canadians, is strong and we’ll work closely together.” Of course, the prime minister at the time was Jean Chretien, and the “reporter” was Rick Mercer from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation comedy TV show, “This Hour Has 22 Minutes”. **
http://www.montrealpoutine.com/history.html
Mercer is a whiny, unfunny, socialist, sodomite Newf who, if it weren't for the socialist CBC having too much money, too few ideas and a 'progressive' agenda that make MSNBC look absolutely conservative, Mercer would be fishing 4 months of the year and drawing 'pogey' the other eight, while supplementing his income by picking up empties on the side of the road and possibly offering 'lip service' to sailors on the St. John's waterfront. Talent? Even less than Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz (Jon Stewart).
I never found This Hour Has 22 Minutes to be even slightly funny. The last funny show I found on TASSKanada aka the CBC was the Royal Canadian Air Farce. Since then the CBC has made BBC news reporting look 'balanced' and 'fair'.
Now, ask me how I REALLY feel about the CBC and what they define as 'komedy'!