The Lines Form Thusly: Flu Shots, British Columbia; Cheap Prescription Drugs, Ontario; Political Asylum, Quebec; Everyone Else Goes to Manitoba.

Disgruntled Democrats seeking a safe Canadian haven after U.S. President George W. Bush won Tuesday's election should not pack their bags just yet.

Canadian officials made clear on Wednesday that any U.S. citizens so fed up with Bush that they want to make a fresh start up north would have to stand in line like any other would-be immigrants--a wait that can take up a year. ...

Asked whether American applicants would get special treatment, she replied: "No, they'll join the crowd like all the other people who want to come to Canada."

In other words, there is no line. Woo, hoo! Last one to Montreal's a rotten egg.