Did you know . . .

. . . that veteran actor Christopher Plummer is great-grandson to Sir John Abbott, Canada's third prime minister? Among his many other roles, Plummer was the only performer in Atom Egoyan's Ararat whose character, in my view, had any depth. As for Abbott, he was the only prime minister to have served in that office while a member of the Senate, which must have made Question Period a bit tricky.