[web-heads] [AotW] 15 year old gets apology

[Steve Lamont <spl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News/2005/02/18/934539-sun.html

  Clarkson apologizes to querying kid
  
  LORRAYNE ANTHONY, CP   	2005-02-18 01:56:20  
  	
  TORONTO -- It's not every day the Governor General calls to
  apologize. But that's what happened to a 15-year-old student whose
  question about government spending resulted in his class's tour of
  the Governor General's official residence being cut short.
  
  "You can imagine . . . I'm doubly embarrassed because someone asked
  a question -- in my home -- and doesn't get the answer. So I really
  wanted to make that right," Adrienne Clarkson told CP minutes after
  she called Jeremy Patfield to apologize.
  
  "I wanted to apologize and say this is the most, you know I really
  thought it was a most unfortunate -- to say the least, I'm
  understating it -- incident."
  
  Patfield, a Grade 8 pupil at John Dryden public school in Whitby,
  was touring Rideau Hall with about 60 students Tuesday when he
  spotted Clarkson and asked: "Is that the woman that spends the money
  on the Queen when she comes?"
  
  Clarkson didn't hear the question. However, a tour guide who did
  immediately ended the group's visit.

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