Canadian Parliament Debates Possible Zombie Apocalypse

By Erica Ho, TIME

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Winnipeg representative Pat Martin asked Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird if he was coordinating with the United States to prepare for an eventual zombie apocalypse. But it was all in good fun.

February 15, 2013 Updated Feb 15, 2013 at 3:03 PM PDT

If the zombies ever do rise up in the U.S., Canada will be prepared.

On Thursday in the House of Commons, Canadian politicians debated the prospect of a zombie invasion and demanded to know what the government was prepared to do in case a (typically) American epidemic began to spread northwards.

Winnipeg representative Pat Martin asked Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird if he was coordinating with the United States to prepare for an eventual zombie apocalypse.

It wasn’t an entirely serious discussion, of course; as the Washington Post put it, the back-and-forth was a “playful jab” at the current strain of zombie-themed emergency preparedness drills in both the U.S. and Canada.

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