The Speaker’s dinner is attended by cabinet ministers and MPs from several parties. “If Robbie Burns were alive today, he would be black and on Maury Povich,” Caesar-Chavennes quipped. If she succeeded in removing Robbie Burns, she would have been fired. “If Robbie Burns was black, we wouldn’t be having this dinner. “Robbie Burns, if you were alive today and you were black, I may have given you my number.”If Burns were alive, he would probably have embraced her message on enfranchisement — and immortalized her in verse.

Source: National Post January 30, 2019 22:10 UTC