"Cheeky Liberals snap up thongs"

These come in sizes small and teenie-weenie:

Thousands of condoms bearing the Young Liberals of Canada logo will be offered to delegates at the Liberal leadership convention. Photograph by : Adrian Wyld, The Canadian press

The Ottawa Citizen

MONTREAL - Politics isn't sexy? Tell that to the thousands of delegates at the Liberal convention.

Forget the hunt for undecided delegates, people here want to get their hands on the sought-after "I'm Liberal" thong underwear.

Five hundred pairs were ordered, in both official languages, and already size medium is sold out in French and English.

The $16 underwear has generated a lot of interest from delegates stopping by the Liberal merchandise table.

"I should get one of those," retired senator Marian Maloney said when she spotted the mini black cotton underwear.

Ms. Maloney, who is 82, bought a pair. They're for her daughter-in-law, she said, after playfully posing for a picture.

Condoms are also being distributed at the convention. More than 2,000 bright red contraceptives bearing the Young Liberals of Canada logo will be given out throughout the weekend.

The Liberals even managed to talk about sex at the potentially boring policy sessions.

There was a resolution to lower the age of consent for anal sex from 18 to 16 that was debated yesterday at the social policy workshop. The resolution narrowly passed the first round of voting by just one vote, but when it came time to pick three priority issues that would move on to be debated by the entire convention, sex was dropped.

Child poverty, affordable housing and banning automatic and semi-automatic weapons were chosen instead.

© The Ottawa Citizen 2006

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