frenchie
Well-known member
CLASSIC VERSION:
> > >
>The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house
>and laying up supplies for the winter.
>
>The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and
>
>plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
>
>The shivering grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the
>cold.
>
>
>
>THE CANADIAN MODERN VERSION:
>The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house
>and laying up supplies for the winter.
>
>The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs, dances and plays the summer
>away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
>
>The shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why
>the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others less
>fortunate like him are cold and starving.
>
>CBC shows up to provide live coverage of the shivering grasshopper, with
>cuts to a video of the
>
>ant in his comfortable warm home with a table filled with food.
>
>Canadians are stunned that in a country of such wealth, this poor
>grasshopper is allowed to suffer so while others have plenty.
>
>The NDP, the CAW and the Coalition Against Poverty demonstrate in front of
>the ant's house. The CBC, interrupting an Inuit cultural festival special
>from Nunavut with breaking news, broadcasts them singing "We Shall
>Overcome."
>
>Svend Robinson rants in an interview with Pamela Wallin that The ant has
>gotten rich off the backs of grasshoppers, and calls for an immediate tax
>hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share." In
>response to polls, the Liberal Government drafts the Economic Equity and
>Grasshopper Anti-Discrimination Act, retroactive to the beginning of the
>summer.
>
>The ant's taxes are reassessed and he is also fined for failing to hire
>grasshoppers as helpers.
>
>Without enough money to pay both the fine and his newly imposed retroactive
>taxes, his home is confiscated by the government. The ant moves to the US,
>starts a successful agribiz company. >
>
>The CBC later shows the now fat grasshopper finishing up the last of the
>ant's food though spring is still months away, while the Government house he
>is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him
>because he hadn't maintained it.
>
>Inadequate government funding is blamed, Roy Romanow is appointed to head a
>commission of
>
>enquiry that will cost $10 million.
>
>The grasshopper is soon dead of a drug overdose, the TorontoStar blames it
>on obvious failure of government to address the root causes of despair
>arising from social inequity.
>
>The abandoned house is taken over by a gang of immigrant spiders, praised by
>the government for enriching Canada's multicultural diversity, who promptly
>terrorize the community
> > >
>The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house
>and laying up supplies for the winter.
>
>The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and
>
>plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
>
>The shivering grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the
>cold.
>
>
>
>THE CANADIAN MODERN VERSION:
>The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house
>and laying up supplies for the winter.
>
>The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs, dances and plays the summer
>away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
>
>The shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why
>the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others less
>fortunate like him are cold and starving.
>
>CBC shows up to provide live coverage of the shivering grasshopper, with
>cuts to a video of the
>
>ant in his comfortable warm home with a table filled with food.
>
>Canadians are stunned that in a country of such wealth, this poor
>grasshopper is allowed to suffer so while others have plenty.
>
>The NDP, the CAW and the Coalition Against Poverty demonstrate in front of
>the ant's house. The CBC, interrupting an Inuit cultural festival special
>from Nunavut with breaking news, broadcasts them singing "We Shall
>Overcome."
>
>Svend Robinson rants in an interview with Pamela Wallin that The ant has
>gotten rich off the backs of grasshoppers, and calls for an immediate tax
>hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share." In
>response to polls, the Liberal Government drafts the Economic Equity and
>Grasshopper Anti-Discrimination Act, retroactive to the beginning of the
>summer.
>
>The ant's taxes are reassessed and he is also fined for failing to hire
>grasshoppers as helpers.
>
>Without enough money to pay both the fine and his newly imposed retroactive
>taxes, his home is confiscated by the government. The ant moves to the US,
>starts a successful agribiz company. >
>
>The CBC later shows the now fat grasshopper finishing up the last of the
>ant's food though spring is still months away, while the Government house he
>is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him
>because he hadn't maintained it.
>
>Inadequate government funding is blamed, Roy Romanow is appointed to head a
>commission of
>
>enquiry that will cost $10 million.
>
>The grasshopper is soon dead of a drug overdose, the TorontoStar blames it
>on obvious failure of government to address the root causes of despair
>arising from social inequity.
>
>The abandoned house is taken over by a gang of immigrant spiders, praised by
>the government for enriching Canada's multicultural diversity, who promptly
>terrorize the community
