My name is Pierre...

Ethanol is a powerful political lubricant. It has long contributed to the shaping of our political realm: Van Horne, Macdonald, Klein, Campbell, just to name a few. Gordon Campbell, of course, got into trouble with the law in Hawaii not long ago, pounding back martinis and then getting behind the wheel of a car. Although he only had two!

Campbell and Pierre Pettigrew, apparently, have more in common than the party labels under which they labor. Pierre was seen pounding martinis like a rapid-firing Patriot battery at a favoured watering hole during the Ottawa Liberal Convention. No one saw him driving afterward, though. Just debating the course of his party.