Guy Fournier Resigns From The CBC

Or Was He Dumped?

A co-worker burst into my office unable to breathe from laughing so hard. "Guy Fournier has resigned," he gasped using the door to keep himself from collapsing on the floor.

The staunch (in the sense of dry and weary), proper personnel of our Majesty's Government apparently lost confidence in Monsieur Fournier to lead the national public broadcasting company and forced his resignation. This loss of confidence stems, it's said, from Fournier mocking the sexual laws of the Lebanese in a column for the popular Quebec magazine, 7 Jours (clicking on the link will take you to Le Monde's coverage of the incident). In that column Monsieur Fournier wrote that Lebanese laws allowed a man to fornicate with animals provided they were female but risked the death penalty if they were male. The controversy that erupted seemed to amuse the head of Radio-Canada.

But the Conservatives were already uncomfortable with the 75 year old when he publicly confessed in an interview that, at his age, he found defecating more pleasurable than sex.

Shit! Fuck, no! My God! This confession of M. Fournier was why my co-worker lost his usual reserve and was leaning heavily and breathless on my door.

My hope is that Fournier is a mischievous crank who enjoys pulling the tail of the watertight Harper (who, incidently, will not tolerate the mocking of the Lebanese peoples prefering to see them murdered from the air by the IDF). If that's the case I'll be sorry to see a controversial character like M. Fournier leave the public square to be replaced by a level-headed bureaucrat who will be pleased with neither shitting nor fucking.

xoxo

M