OTTAWA – As summer vacation approaches fast, the two groups of people who get the entire time off, young children and members of parliament, are both very excited for it to begin.
“I can’t wait for summer. I’m going to get a kite and go to the beach and then fly it and then build a sandcastle and then fly a kite above my sandcastle and then the tide will come and then I will eat ice cream,” said seven-year-old Steven Holland’s dad Mark, M.P. for Ajax-Pickering.
Other elected officials were not quite as excited for their taxpayer funded two month vacation.
“I want to just veg out, hit the pool, just really get to know myself,” said Conservative M.P. Harold Albrecht, who was elected on a platform of eliminating government waste. “But I think my annoying whip has me signed up for a bunch of lame activities, like soccer camp, arts and crafts, and constituency work in the community.”
However others were planning on putting the time to good use.
“I think this is the summer I finally win the ‘who can read the most legislation’ contest Parliament has every summer,” said NDP member Niki Ashton.
At press time a group of M.P.s had overturned their desks and set fire to their parliamentary briefing papers while Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out” blared over the loudspeakers.
