Eh, Canada: We Are Suspending This Feature Because of America's Economic Crisis

Today's joking look at the Canadian federal elections has been suspended because America faces an historic crisis in its financial system, and this is no time for joking looks at Canadian federal elections.

We are going to wind up beating each other with our bindle-sticks as we fight for scraps in the bread line, Tories and Grits and NDPs and Greens and the BQ and Democrats and Republicans and Libertarians alike (although Ron Paul's people are probably halfway to their safe caves already), so we should come together in extremely heightened anxiety.

We should not be poking fun, however gently, at Canadians.

Eh, Canada will return when a bipartisan plan to restore America's economic security has been signed, sealed and delivered to the world. I'm told that will happen very soon, but until I see it in writing, I will not say a word about the Canadian election.

I will not, for example, mention Tory Lee Richardson's inflammatory remarks about immigrants. I'm not going to mention that at all, because this feature, in which I might mention that, has been suspended.