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You say what now, honourable Senator representing Rigaud?

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TSN’s Michael Landsberg laughs through the pain.

Conflict-of-interest-free Canadian Senator Jacques Demers tells the kind of joke my dad makes when he’s four Cuba Libres into some family wedding. That is to say, off-colour, cringe-inducing and completely harmless. A few differences: my dad isn’t a senator (yet); Demers was presumably sober, and; he did it on live television. Let the smarmy outrage start... now.

Martin Patriquin writes about Quebec and sometimes everything else.

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