Ladies and Gentlemen, le Premiere Ministre de Quebec:

“Good evening my fellow citizens of Quebec, including many of you in Alberta who have gone to work out there because there are no jobs back here.

I am speaking to you tonight from the Cabinet Room in the historic National Assembly building in Quebec City.

This wonderful parliament building is just down the Grande Allee from the Plains of Abraham, where of course an unfortunate battle was fought in September of 1759.

Recent efforts to restore/rebuild the Bluenose sailing sloop ($15.5m???) got me thinking about another attempt to re-do the past…

It has come to my attention that the National Battlefields Commission has decided to re-enact the Battle of the Plains of Abraham on, well, the Plains of Abraham, in Quebec City.

(I had a Jewish classmate at Crestwood Elementary in Edmonton who told me the Plains of Abraham was also another name for the Israeli Air Force).

I don’t know who the National Battlefields Commission is, but I think this is a bad idea.