Amazing. The spouse of a cabinet minister is pulled over speeding while drunk with blow in his car, gets a $500 fine, and the reaction of one of the Globe and Mail's most prominent bloggers is to say that he doesn't owe anyone so much as an explanation for why he and not other dark-skinned males pulled over with controlled substances get such luxurious treatment.
This isn't a little question: cocaine possession is punishable by up to 7 years in prison, under Canadian law. Frankly, if Jaffer had been a black man from Scarborough, he'd be eating at least some of those years, I'm sure.
Hell, if Jaffer had been stopped in the U.S. he'd probably be in Gitmo.
Posted by: Sir Charles | March 11, 2010 at 10:26 AM
This line, by Radwanski:
...one can only assume the Tories didn't pull any strings for him. Maybe he just got lucky.
is proof-positive that members of a certain segment of the population will not just entertain, but swallow whole even the most far-flung delusions and disproved theories if need be--anything to avoid questioning their worldviews or doubting their heroes, which in this case are the upper classes to which they imagine themselves belonging one day.
Posted by: litbrit | March 11, 2010 at 10:44 AM