BBC World apologizes for its egregiously inaccurate reporting on the recent political situation in Canada. Read an account of one of our online articles here: http://bit.ly/dUsXBp
By way of explanation, we at BBC World find Canada a terribly baffling country to cover, being as it's so bloody cold and empty and nothing much of interest ever happens there. Therefore, we really can't find much time to pay any attention to it, not when there's so much other compelling news to report, such as the frightfully exciting municipal elections in Moldova and a very suspenseful constitutional convention in Swaziland.
At any rate, we do regret these damnable errors and promise they shall not be repeated. Here is the corrected story:
GOV'T OF OBSCURE NORTHERN COUNTRY FALLS
Ottawa - A largely empty expanse of tundra at the northern end of North America finds itself suddenly without a government today.
The country, a former collection of British colonies referred to by its inhabitants as Canada, lost its government after a sudden winter storm.
Reports out of its chilly Arctic capital, Ottawa, say the storm cut down on the visibility of the parliament buildings, preventing members of the minority ruling Harper Party from showing up to work. They were then branded as contemptuous and - in the ancient traditions of the country's majority Eskimo population - banished to the open tundra to die.
This, of course, in Canada's pale imitation of Britain's Mother-of-all-Parliaments, means an election must be called immediately for early May - presuming, of course, that by then the weather will have warmed up enough for Canadians to come out of their igloos and vote.
Prime Minister Harper - pictured here with his wife - was forced to go to the Canadian governor-general, who acts as an agent for British MP George Galloway in Canada, and ask permission to dissolve his government.
The election promises to be a typically dreary Canadian affair, after which nothing much will change and Canada will go back to being the world's least interesting country ... after Belgium.
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