Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, Canadian Pacific CEO Fred Green, and Mayor Pat Fiacco.

10 June 2011

Humour on the Orient Express

Regina Saskatchewan - We begin today by drawing readers' attention to the, ah, unusual suit worn by Regina Mayor Pat Fiacco to Friday's unveiling of the site for the Canadian Pacific Railway's new Regina intermodal terminal in the Global Transportation Hub on the western edge of Regina.
 
Hizzonner's suit was pale, brownish grey, with fine checks all over it.
 
He cut quite the dashing figure as the cream of the local business community, plus assorted reporters and radio types, rode a CPR train (complete with steam locomotive) from downtown Regina to the site on the CPR mainline.
 
The excitement of being on a train with sleeping cars a la Orient Express, fine food, and an army of CPR staff prompted Mayor Pat to quip, "I felt like I was in a movie, and when I said that, the premier said, Well, you're dressed like you're in one!"