THE CANADIAN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building hishouse and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's afool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, theant is warm and well fed. So far, so good, eh?
The shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know whythe ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others lessfortunate, like him, are cold and starving.
The CBC shows up to provide live coverage of the shivering grasshopper,with cuts to a video of the ant in his comfortable warm home with a tableladen with food.
Canadians are stunned that in a country of such wealth, this poorgrasshopper is allowed to suffer so while others have plenty.
The NDP, the CAW and the Coalition Against Poverty demonstrate in front ofthe ant's house. The CBC, interrupting an Inuit cultural festival specialfrom Nunavut with breaking news, broadcasts them singing "We ShallOvercome."
Jack Layton rants in an interview with Mike Duffy that the ant has gottenrich off the backs of grasshoppers, and calls for an immediate tax hike onthe ant to make him pay his "fair share".
In response to polls, the Conservative Government drafts the Economic Equityand Grasshopper Anti-Discrimination Act, retroactive to the beginning of thesummer.
The ant's taxes are reassessed, and he is also fined for failing to hiregrasshoppers as helpers.
Without enough money to pay both the fine and his newly imposedretroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
The ant moves to the US and starts a successful agribiz company.
The CBC later shows the now fat grasshopper finishing up the last of theant's food, though spring is still months away, while the government househe is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles aroundhim because he hasn't bothered to maintain it.
Inadequate government funding is blamed, Bob Rae is appointed to head acommission of enquiry that will cost $10,000,000.
The grasshopper is soon dead of a drug overdose, the Toronto Star blamesit on the obvious failure of government to address the root causes of despairarising from social inequity.
The abandoned house is taken over by a gang of immigrant spiders, praisedby the government for enriching Canada 's multicultural diversity, whopromptly set up a marijuana grow op and terrorize the community.
THE END
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