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June 05, 2005

Maybe they can find someone older

Mordecai Richler:

I was at the Ritz after a long lunch, and I was going to buy some cigars. Bernard Landry was checking his coat — we'd never met — and he said to me, "I hate you, I hate you, you're a racist." I wasn't really on top of it after this long lunch, and I said, "You're nothing but a provincial bumpkin." And he said: "I have a university degree!"

Farewell to one of the easiest political cartoons in Canadian history.

(Richler's anecode per Renzetti, Elizabeth. "The public face of Mordecai Richler, literary lion." Globe and Mail. 27 September 1997: C12.)

Posted by Chris Selley at June 5, 2005 12:53 PM