Kitchen God's Day

Later today Canadians will vote. The result of this election is far from clear right now and it is perhaps the most uncertain election in recent memory. On the Chinese calendar, we are at the height of New Year preparation. Today is the day we send off the kitchen god to report on us in heaven and then we clean house. It is kind of an appropriate date for an election--the citizens on this day are like kitchen gods reporting on the election officials. And like the kitchen gods, we were all offered all kinds of brides to report favourably. But then, Paul Martin may have failed to find out the full meaning of the day from his Chinese MPs. House cleaning is certainly not what he wants. Or perhaps he received bad advice from his trusted minister. This is no doubt another bright idea from the vacuum inside the skull of Raymond Chan, the most useless of all MPs.