DANG

I should have voted for the pot smokers. Well, it would have been tempting if I was in the Ottawa—Vanier riding. There, the Marijuana Party's candidate is:

Taylor, a 29-year-old former Senate page, goes by the name Ms. Qui in her local dungeon, equipped with whips, chains and a "suspension cage." Domination and politics "go well together - both are very negotiation-oriented," says Taylor, whose Web site address can’t be published in a family paper.

When not inflicting pain, she smokes an eighth of an ounce of pot daily to dull her own pain, the result of a 1992 stroke. An advocate of legalized pot, Taylor wears latex hot pants and claims her "primal fetish is federal politics." She’s running against Liberal MP Mauril Belanger, chief government whip.

Hat tip to Kate at Small Dead Animals, who pointed out the irony of a dominatrix running against a whip.

And if she only entered the race to get publicity for her business, that's cool with me. It worked. Ms Qui's website is here.