The latest cockamamie screwball idea out there is to change "Victoria Day" to "Victoria and First Peoples Day" (you need an apostrophe after "peoples", or leave off the "s", but let's not quibble). Get a friggin' grip.
Made up of "actors, singers, writers and politicians" -- people who could and should find better things to do -- the group claims the change would honour aboriginal people in the development of Canada's history. I think it's a dumb idea. We already have aboriginal awareness week, why do they need to butt in on Victoria's glory? She only has one day, which also happens to be the day Canada celebrates the current Queen's official birthday. Please don't mess that up. And don't the natives already get an over-abundance of attention, what with all the drumming and marching and sitting-in and protesting and storming and sweet-grassing they relentlessly mete out to the weary law-abiding taxpayer over every little thing? Granted it's the wrong kind of attention, but that's their fault.
Margaret Atwood, go write another clone of your last book. Gordon Pinsent, try to act somewhere. Susan Aglukark, sing a song. Elizabeth May, concentrate on Parliament. Get over yourselves and leave Queen Victoria alone.
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