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Protester hits Chrétien with pie POSTED AT 11:19 AM EDT Wednesday, August 16 - Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada - A protester in Charlottetown hit Prime Minister Jean Chrétien with a pie Wednesday, making him the lastest victim to take a pastry in the face. Mr. Chrétien was greeting supporters at a local festival when a man walked up to him from the front and heaved the pie. The man said he was representing the P.E.I. pie brigade, and was protesting what he called the government's inaction against genetically-modified foods, and crimes against Canadians. Mr. Chrétien isn't the first Canadian politician to be targeted by fast-flying desserts. A cell of Quebec Entartistes (pie-ers), following Belgian Noël Godin, anarchist author of Cream and Punishment, whose motto is that "the cream pie is the arm of the weak and powerless," have thrown cream pies into the faces of politicians. In the past two years, the cream-pie anarchists "entarted" Montreal mayor Pierre Bourque, former Quebec premier Jacques Parizeau, Montreal mayoral candidate Jacques Duchesneau, and Federal Intergovernment Affairs minister Stephane Dion who was flanned as he handed out pieces of cake at a homeless shelter. In April, Quebec's Finance Minister Bernard Landry got a pie in the face. Mr. Chrétien flew into Charlottetown to officiate at the opening of Old Home Week, and is scheduled to spend the afternoon at a golf course with LPGA Lorie Kane. The Prime Minister is also scheduled to attend an ice cream social in St. Peters this afternoon. By MELANIE SEAL Globe and Mail Update Copyright 2000 Globe "http://www.globeandmail.com/" janet paterson 53 now / 44 dx cd / 43 onset cd / 41 dx pd / 37 onset pd tel: 613 256 8340 url: "http://www.geocities.com/janet313/" email: [log in to unmask] smail: POBox 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada