A quick note on Frum’s significance… (from his Wikipedia profile)
David Frum’s sister, Linda Frum, is a member of the Canadian Senate. David Frum is married to writer Danielle Crittenden, the stepdaughter of former Toronto Sun editor Peter Worthington. He is a distant cousin of economist Paul Krugman.[5] During the 1990s he attended “three or four” Bilderberg Group meetings as a guest of Conrad Black.[8] He served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Speechwriting from January 2001 to February 2002. He filed for naturalization(US Citizenship) and took the oath on September 11, 2007.[10] While serving in the Bush White House, Frum was “one of the most vociferous voices . . . calling for war in Iraq,” and “wrote in 2003 about the Iraqis ‘welcoming their liberators.’”[11] On October 11, 2007, Frum announced on his blog that he was joining Rudolph Giuliani’s presidential campaign as a senior foreign policy adviser.[12][13] David Frum is on the board of directors of the Republican Jewish Coalition.[14] Frum was a fellow of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative think tank, from 2003 until March 25, 2010, when his paid position was terminated and he declined to accept the offer of a non-paying position.[15][16] Media reports noted that the termination came three days after Frum’s strongly worded criticism of the Republican strategy on health care reform, but Frum said that the AEI had not cited his criticism as the reason for his termination.[15][17] It was suggested that he was fired for criticizing Fox news, saying “Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox.”[18] (My comments italicized) Barbara Frum, David’s Mother, is a wonderful women who contributed much of herself to Canada throughout her life, acclaimed for her interviews for the CBC.

Anyhoo…
Let’s hope the critical thinking Canadian population has patience with the people who will be swayed by this type of antediluvian conservatism. Elections Canada, Rick Mercer and CBC’s Vote Compass were a few of the first victims in the obviously overacted gong show that is SUN News. What makes us Canadian is not Hockey, Donuts, Beer, Snow, or Beavers… I submit what makes us Canadian is compassion towards one another, willingness to help those in need regardless of personal beliefs, our relationship with our government, our sense of humour and the eventful multicultural history that precedes us. (“relationship with our government” refers to our ability to unseat a leader or political party when we see fit, which serves special significance in a time of great political unrest across the Muslim world over this very ability)

Im finishing this up as BYLINE (9pm EST) is running in the background… and I’m encouraged to vomit by the shockingly childish, facetiously narrow-minded rants by Brian Lilley’s guest Rick something… Uuuugghh, I think this is gonna get annoying!

Good Luck Canada… I hope I still recognize you 5 years from now. On the bright side, this is a clarion call for Canadian Comedy and out the woods, hockey arenas and donut shops come the sarcastic hordes!