Even if that question is satisfied it comes a year too late. Their entire crisis control has ben astoundingly horrific. It is the equivalent of announcing on the public address system, "spill on aisle 9" only to discover that aisle 9 just had an airliner crash into it....
I guess that is what I meant by unprecedented. The Fords have crashed a 747 non-whisper-lite jumbo jet into Canadian politics.
(I didn't want to say unprecedented in the world, because there are many Shakespearian plays which deal with the same subject matter of corruption, greed and murder by those supposed to be "governing".)
The fact that there are now academics studying the rofo phenomenon puts it into a class beyond late night comic commentary.
This thread has read like a 4000 part interactive miniseries. We now have been both spectator and participant in this saga.
At UT, I have learned all about the connections with organized crime, the corruption in the police, government, and business, and about the familial disfunction that allow this mind boggling stupidity to continue.
Our citizen journalism, and outlandish conspiracies, have helped make sense of, and to write, this epic 21st century, web-based tale.
Unprecedented.