Desperate for relevance, Canada's Commie-Pinko NDP party is trying to recast itself as a 'orange' green party (their traditional party colour is orange). Hence this ad. For a political 'viral ad' of sorts, it's so 'non-slick' it's kind of slick, if that makes any sense.

Olivia and her husband are both Members of Parliament - her husband Jack Layton being leader of the federal NDP party.

For those of you unfamiliar with Canadian politics, we have four federal parties, one of the four being devoted to destroying the country (I'm not being a partisan or anything - they want Quebec to seceed and be its own country).

Having mentioned the Bloc Quebecois, the others are the NDP (as you see in the vid - the most 'left wing' of the 'big four'), the Liberals (middle of the road/centrist), and the Conservatives (yep, right wing).

We also have a Green Party, which irritates the NDP and the Liberals to no end, as they've been stealing about 5% if the votes in the past few elections, enought to spoil a race here and there - they haven't, however, won any seats in Parliament yet(?).

I visited Gainsbourg's grave in Paris a few years back. It had all the markings of a little shrine: someone had left some neat little snapshots among the candles. Someone else had left a cabbage with hiragana on it. Why knows why? There was a half-smoked cigarette lying as though left for Gainsbourg to finish. Amazing place. Watching this clip, made me wonder if the days of men like Serge Gainsbourg, Irving Layton, and Charles Bukowski will ever roll around again. :-)