No-fly zone

Okay they spent $45 million to buy 1 million flags, or about $45 a flag, just slightly over the initial cost estimate of $7-million. Check. The program involved a lot of phoney invoicing and kickbacks to Liberal-connected flag suppliers. Check. Only the flag suppliers didn't actually supply the flags: most of them were bought overseas. Check. But that's not the best part. Not only was the now-infamous Lafleur Communications cut in on one particularly juicy deal -- the usual 17 per cent for the usual sweet nothing -- but the flags they bought are incapable of flying. No sleeve, you see. As history records, however, just the knowledge that those flags were sitting in a warehouse somewhere helped persuade Quebecers to turn away from separatism... (A wave of the Red Rag to the CBC, which owns this story.)