From the column:

"I pity the poor folks who organized last weekend’s Fête Nationale parade in Montreal...Instead of using cars and trucks to pull the floats, they decided to get a bunch of volunteer students to push the floats instead...The floats were mostly occupied by white people. The students...were mostly from minority groups. The optics were unfortunate....People invoked images of black slaves and white masters."

After reading the paragraph above, I couldn't help but laugh out loud; not due to the politically incorrect image of slavery, but how the sincerity of the organizers clashed with the parade participants' skin colour.  How could ANYBODY foresee such a perfect storm of circumstances prior to the parade?

Hopefully the organizers will be congratulated on the overall success of the parade and their great idea to minimize the carbon footprint...