The Difference Between U.S. and Canadian Politics

In the U.S., we worry about flubbed jokes. In Canada, they don’t even care if the cameramen digitize out their “bits.” Liberal party leadership candidate Bob Rae goes fly fishing and spontaneously jumps buck naked into a lake with RMR host Rick Mercer. “The skinny dipping stunt may have given Rae the kind of bounce Bill Clinton got from his 1991 sax stunt on Arsenio Hall. ‘It was certainly a moment,’ said Mercer.” Bill Brioux in the Toronto Sun.