Former prime minister Jean Chretien was hit in the face with a pie by a protester in Prince Edward Island in 2000. His attacker initially was given jail time but eventually received a conditional sentence.
A woman who missed Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach with a pie at the annual Calgary Stampede breakfast in 2007, and hit a security official instead, was sentenced to 30 days in jail.
So was a woman who threw a pie at Calgary Mayor Dave Bronconnier in the summer of 2007.
In 2003, a protester who hit then-Alberta premier Ralph Klein in the face with a pie at the Stampede breakfast was convicted of assault and ordered to serve a 30-day intermittent jail sentence.
Basically if you throw a pie in the face of a politician in Canada you'll prolly get charged and then have the sentence suspended. Unless you do it in Alberta in which case you'll go to jail.
Alberta is to Canada as Texas is to the US.
Calling pie tossing terrorism is quite simply the dumbest thing Spud has heard of in a bit.
It's analogous to tossing kids who sext onto the sexual offenders registry.
It diminishes and waters down the definition to the point of absurdity.
Wot's next? Making whoopie cushions illegal? Calling a flaming bag of dog shiat on someone's doorstep a "weapon of mass destruction"?
That all noted, the annual seal kill in Canada is really a cull and it is justifiable particularly in light of the collapsed fish stocks on the east coast.
Be Well.
/As ya do
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