A contemporary politician has to be cognizant of things that are going on.

A contemporary politician has to be cognizant of things that are going on.

I drew a vicious cartoon of an Islamic extremist as a dog, knowing full well what an insult that was is in the Islamic world. Furthermore, I added an apology to dogs everywhere (being a dog lover myself).

I think any good cartoon sums things up for people. It's kind of ironic we appear on the editorial pages of newspapers, but now of course we're transferring over to the net, and that gets a lot more attention.

If you look at a cartoon on a computer screen, it really jumps and can be quite effective.

Despite that sort of reputation that Canada has of being a boring place, we really have produced really interesting politicians.

A good cartoon, what it does, is sum up a situation, very neatly, as opposed to reading a lot of articles and so on.