Surprise!

John Ralston Saul, one of my favourite angry humanist philosophers, turns out to be Canada's First Lady. This is slightly topical as his wife, Canada' governor-general, will get to choose the winner of Monday's Canadian election.
In some ways the coming result resembles New Zealand's 1996 election, which forced a fragile center-left coalition and the right to battle for the affections of a 'plague-on-both-your-houses' nationalist party from somewhere off the political spectrum. Winston Peters, of course, chose to return to his Tory roots, prompting the messy detonation of New Zealand First two years later; it is not clear that the Bloc Québécois is quite so mercurial in nature, or riven by the same sort of weird chemistry as NZF, where Maori nationalists were conjoined with red-neck farmers and cops (ironically, it was the Maori MP's who would prop up the National Government after the Coalition crumbled - Winston's party of angry agriculturists was preserved when he survived Election Night in Fortress Tauranga).