Could you type out that first sentence again, Bobert? Something is missing from it, and I cannot decypher what it was that you meant to say.

There are a few people up here who do want to hear what George Bush has to say. They comprise about 1% of the Canadian population...and they are in the highest income bracket. They probably know our prime minister personally. Need I say more? ;-D The tickets were expensive to attend...but that's how people in that crowd impress each other, and it's just chicken feed to them to spend, say, $500 bucks listening to an ex-president blather on for an hour or so.