ROTFLMAO Gervase!
Sort of puts the run on the falacy that the UK and Canada are somehow gentler societies than the US. You sure couldn't prove it by the behavior of their elected officials. Chretien put a choke hold on the throat of a protestor who was "in his face" and dropped the guy a couple of years back.
Really hard to teach your children well about settling things by non-violent means, given the examples set by Parliamentarians.
At least Clinton could be called a hands on kind of guy in a different arena.