Canada issues passport to Santa Claus

[Sunspace]

From the Globe and Mail

The Harper government has issued Santa a Canadian passport – a lighthearted Christmas stunt that comes weeks after it served noticed [sic] it would lay claim to the North Pole as part of an international bid for seabed riches in Arctic…

The event was primarily intended to promote a new generation of ultra-secure Canadian passports rather than open a new, albeit fictional front in the battle for the Pole.

Suuure it was. When the implacably-polite stormtroopers of the Canadian Hegemony come swarming down from the Pole, we’ll know what’s really going on…

[Cat_Whisperer]

That is indeed interesting. It does sound like a bit of lighthearted fluff, but the underlying message is not all that lighthearted at all.

[MEBuckner]

Sounds like we can expect a new “Cold War” (so to speak) between Santa Claus and Ded Moroz (who I must admit does have a much more badass name).