I had a grand time at Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto on Thursday night. It was a huge space but it was, as Kathy Shaidle says, "packed (literally) to the rafters". My old National Post colleague, Jonathan Kay, introduced me, rather drolly, and then Dr Elliott Malamet conducted a lively interview touching on everything from neo-colonial condescension via Keats and Mahler to the universality of Greek exceptionalism. Blazing Cat Fur reckons the loudest cheers were for "Steyn's slagging of Section 13", which may be true. My own memory is that a Doris Day/gangsta rap crack got the biggest laugh. At any rate, the Closet Conservative took notes and calls it "an inspiring evening". It certainly inspired Scaramouche to produce one of her trademark musical parodies. Aside from being an inspiring evening, it was also a long one: The book signing afterwards lasted a couple of hours and the line stretched way out of the room and down the corridor. I was happy to stay and meet so many folks. Thanks to Torah in Motion for putting on such a great event, and to the media pals I checked in on en route - Jacqui Delaney, Michael Coren, John Oakley and Jerry Agar. And I am most grateful, of course, to my "classy entourage".
PS The rumours are true. Next stop on my Commonwealth tour: Australia.
