What does HARM have to say about Michaelle Jean?”
In the wake of the Governor-General’s delightful Monday foray into the lights of a dead seal, will the ulu knife become Canada’s next chic piece of giftware? Hey, if you’ve got a June wedding you still need to shop for, you could do worse. The ulu is a national symbol so potent, it is actually given a special exemption from the weapons regulations in our Criminal Code, which prohibits the carrying of any other knife that has a blade perpendicular to the handle. You would have to have a heart of stone not to feel some emotion over the rich, heady semiotics of a leftist female intellectual, awkwardly freighted with a train of royal dignities, climbing down from her pedestals of class, office and beauty to muck in amidst a sea of blood and oozing fat with a traditionally female household tool. And she has made it clear that she knew exactly what she was doing. Let’s give some credit to her husband Jean-Daniel Lafond, too; he was right there beside her, bravely munching on the raw seal, on
