There has to be a joke in there about an early morning line-up for Glasgow folk festival tickets but it's not coming to me.

These are my peeps, no doubt as a branch of our particular tribe were Lanarkshire coal miners, not exactly the sort of trade that was populated by auslanders. Mind you, I really have no idea or at least nothing near the understanding of Mike who has jumped into the genetic pool question with both feet and a floating lounge chair, too. It seems it is important to be from somewhere or at least not to be not.

Is that what is wrong with Mr. Harper - that he has not, despite all the years or the authority or the best hopes, enunciated anything Canadian or about Canada or making it interesting in anyway to be Canadian? Because I spent an afternoon there in 1991, today's awful events in Kamien Pomorski trigger a visceral response. I don't think I have that relationship to greater Canada anymore given how it has been diminished in my imagination as a place by successive Federal minimizers. Soon "place" will mean little more than the scope of our workday travel with, no doubt, an extension to the grocery brands we buy whether global or eco-local.

Would it take more than noticing the full scope of section 3(1)(d)? Would it require someone to enunciate that it is OK to respect and advocate for a Federal dream? How else does it get associated to me? Because if it is left to me, it will be more about upstate NY white hots as well as tartaned hoards.