If the jurisdiction question was to be argued first, it would happen under the still-existing publication ban, and its details and outcome might never be reported. This took all day to resolve. No wonder it takes 18 lawyers to screw in a lightbulb.

The third trap claims people who turn their encounter with Beauty into a fetish—those who, having seen the sunlight shine through their bedroom window, mistake the window for the sun itself, and forever afterwards frantically polish the glass.

The Vice President was to tour the Alberta tar sands, a huge oil project in the north of the province. Apparently the Lord was not ready to have the Vice President inspect his oil reserves.

Canada must guarantee current export levels to the US. Should the levels decrease, then Canada's production and consumption levels must decrease by the same proportion