Jim (Bozo) Prentice knows the bill would be defeated, so he'll only introduce it when it doesn't have a chance of going to a vote, because he promised the Canadian Independent Record Production Association (CIRPA), that the new legislation would be tabled before the House of Commons breaks for the summer. So it'll be tabled, but not passed and then withdrawn, and he'll claim he kept his promise.

I'd go and download a illegal copy of "Send in the Clowns", except there's no need as they're clearly already here.

It'd be good for long guitar solos

Cartoon clarification on the issue at http://ocnorml.org/images/security_fence.jpg

Or just cover half of it-- that would REALLY confuse the next guy.

I dunno, Dave. Sounds like a pretty half-assed idea to me.

Leonard Cohen for Canada.

the arm once belonged to a veterinarian

So, is that like "it was the vet's arm", or that he had an extra arm lying around that he was saving to feed his favourite croc?

I didn't think people had the right to have human arms around, although of course in the US you do have the right to bear arms.

Sarcastically implying they're idiots is always comedy gold on Boing Boing.

Inferring, HJ03, not implying.