Beautiful, Beautiful Brown Eyes

The damn seal hunt! Seems to be a no win situation for Canada. It's bad. Used to be a lot worse though. It's been more that 25 years since baby seals have been killed. Remember that infamous picture of Mulroney standing over the dead boar like a great, white hunter? I believe he shot it in Bosnia. Anyway, it really seemed to upset the Liberals and NDP and they gave our then Prime Minister a lot of flak about it. But Mulroney made a remark that, in my mind, was the quote of that decade. He said: "When Sven and the boys are sitting around on the hill eating their steaks, do they think the steer committed suicide?" Sven and the boys! I love it! Now, CBC, you have aired many scenes of seals being killed with all that red blood on the white snow etc etc. I realize it makes for great TV, especially now in "living" colour! But still, I wonder would it be feasible for the CBC to take cameras into an Alberta slaughter house? I heard that Sven, before he became a jewel thief, sometimes ordered veal. Yes, those big, brown, trusting eyes of a baby cow just before its demise could make for some excellent TV too, don't you think?

Dimmy