Harper Government bans words associated with racial minorities

In the wake of the emotional distress caused to conservative senator Don Meredith as a result of the insensitive racial comment "cotton-pickin minute" uttered by Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, the Harper Government has put forward a bill in the House of Commons to ban all use of certain words and phrases which may be seen as racial insults. If passed, words and phrases such as "cotton pickin minute, homo milk, Oreo cookie, niggardly (see March 2 entry), and a list of about 10,000 other words, will be stricken from the English language. This government intends to show that that we can be more politically sensitive than all the other parties. Especially when it serves our own purposes.