What so many people were thinking

One Senator had the bravado to get up and say. Senator Céline Hervieux-Payette has responded to a letter sent to Canadian Senators, from an American family, asking Canada to stop the seal hunt. Nobody else would say anything, but Celine. Good for her. And, no, she did not say she was going to stop the hunt.

Instead, she pointed out to the well wishing McLelland family, that perhaps they would better spend their energy looking into the missgivings of their own government. The Senator mentioned some things such as the killing of inmates in American prisons, (the majority of whom are black) and the deaths of people all over the world by the American War against Terror.

Sure, the Canadian government has some seal blood on it's hands. I'm not even going to touch this one. But one family not wanting to come to Canada because we killed a few seals? Compare that to the number of dead Iraqis?

It's good that this family cared enough to do something. I'm sure they weren't even expecting a response. But please, to the McLelland Family, send your letters to Mr Bush. Tell him to keep his oil wells out of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Tell him to start checking emmisions levels on SUVs. Tell him to live up to the agreements set out in Kyoto. Otherwise Mr Bush will be killing off an even greater number of seals when they don't have ice flows to live on because they melted. And what about the polar bears? Well, they won't be doing so well, because they can't get to the seals.

Funny how it's never so black and white.