From Canada's
The Vancouver Sun:
Governor General eats raw seal heart to support hunters
Canada�s Governor General began her Arctic tour by gutting a freshly slaughtered seal, pulling out its heart and eating it raw, according to media reports.
Michaelle Jean, the Queen�s representative to the country, did it as a gesture of solidarity with the country�s beleaguered seal hunters, the reports said, adding that Jean expressed dismay that people would call the traditional hunting practices inhumane.
After eating the heart during a stop in Nunavut�s Rankin Inlet, Jean wiped her blood-soaked fingers with a tissue.
On Tuesday, Jean arrives in Kugluktuk, Nunavut.
And, here she is speaking before the Senate and delivering this observation:
'Today, we meet at a time of unprecedented economic uncertainty. The global credit crunch has dragged the world economy into a crisis whose pull we cannot escape,' Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean read in the speech from the throne Monday in the Senate.
A classy lady and a good politician.
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