At least our senators are only aliterate -- they pass 1,000-page bills without reading them because they choose to. Looks like the Canadians now have the real thing:
Jacques Demers, the Stanley Cup-winning coach who has spoken frankly about his lifelong battle with illiteracy, was appointed Thursday to the Canadian Senate.
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He has said that as recently as 2005 he could only write his name and a few words. That year Demers revealed he was a functional illiterate in a biography written by journalist Mario LeClerc.
Demers would hire assistants to review hockey contracts and pretended to read notes while on TV. He even managed to hide his illiteracy from his wife, pretending to be busy when bills arrived in the mail and asking her to look after them.
But, come to think of it, our senators are at least as smart as the Canadian ones, don't you suppose? Wonder how many of them are just pretending to read notes during all those TV hearings?
