In Wired magazine today

Aboriginal Indians and people from India are different. That's what a contender for the leadership of Canada's opposition Conservative Party learned after his office sent a letter to a native group congratulating it on a holiday celebrating India's independence from Britain. Wrong Indians. The mistake prompted a stinging rebuke from the Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centers president: 'This is 2004, Mr. Harper, not 1492 ... the last time a man got lost looking for India.' Harper apologized, blaming student interns who compiled a database of Indo-Canadian and other groups as part of an outreach program and got this one wrong.

Oh dear, and I thought Canadians were such a polite sensitive lot. Of cuorse it was someone else's fault, though. That bloody Vasco Da Gamma.