PQ plans to pay for election promises by blowing Quebc up, selling pieces

PQ leader Pauline Marois unveiled part of her party's spending proposals today by saying that she intended to pay for $1 billion in promises by blowing parts of Quebec up and selling the pieces for scrap.

"Our natural resource patrimony can be accessed by taking a bunch of TNT, blowing parts of our nation up, and then sifting through the wreckage to see if there is anything to salvage and sell," said Marois.

This process, which the PQ calls "mining", is one way that governments in third world countries such as South Africa, the Congo and Nigeria use to fund their regimes. The process usually involves having orphaned children operate high explosives in cavernous undergound tunnels. Small birds are kept in the tunnels to gage whether the air inside the tunnels is too poisonous to breathe.