A new Canadian play

Proud by Michael Healey, starring the author, is on at the GCTC.  It was a great evening of theatre, full of insight and laughter. The Prime Minister--entirely not unlike Mr Harper--has won most of the seats in Quebec, and has some interesting new MPs to work with and train.  The story had economics, sex, ethics, pragmatism, deceit and political legerdemain.

We stayed for the "Friday Night Fights", a series of debates on the play's themes. But it was more of a love-in than a fight. Still, it was interesting to hear inside press gallery stories, and meet a very good editorial cartoonist from Halifax, who draws for the Hill Times. The moderator was the publisher of the HT; I think he's a GCTC regular because he looked awfully familiar.