I came across this doozie of a foolish fib over at Darcey's the other day. All my good socialist life I have known other good socialists and liberals who like to hunt. Now, I swap beer with them for venison rabbit and duck. I may even get my own license to renew my acquaintance with hunting (if even to expand the quota and act as Ottawa Valley pheasant - aka "the flying lunchbox" - beater) that I had as a kid in Nova Scotia going out with scouts or other kid's folks, many of who were not Conservative voters. And it was not just the rural folk. The suburbs of my Maritime youth included garages where deer were hung. Hunting was and remains about food not politics. This fiction that only the right hunts is nuts but is being perpetrated again by the Prime Minister this weekend. The Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters' will have none of it:

A spokesperson for the federation, which represents 83,000 members in 655 hunting and fishing clubs, said whoever won the raffle would be required to show a firearm licence before taking the rifles home. She said the federation is supported by both Conservative and Liberal MPs.

Canada has 1,859,501 gun licenses and almost 22% of Canadian households have at least one firearm according to Wikipedia. I think it is fair to say that most Canadians live in the woods or at least have their imaginations residing there. We may have crime and regulation of one sort or another like most other societies but for the vast majority of the time guns cause duck sausage and venison steaks. Perpetrating the idea that the left like wild meat any less than the right is one way the spin doctors would have us believe that the right is "more Canadian" - a load of hooey. Tastiness and back country living is an apolitical concept.