I smell a movie of the week

We’ve got a famous hockey player, a famous politician, a spurned wife spitting bullets over having been threatened with “financial extinction” and enough innuendo to make the most arrogant cad blush.

Welcome to the Belinda and Tie story. Llove match or business relationship? It all depends on whose court document is being read at any given time.

Today’s wild developments included Belinda calling out about double standards, Leanne Domi painting the former Toronto Maple Leaf as a mean spirited bully who has tossed his family aside with his relationship with the Liberal MP and one time Conservative leadership candidate. The soon to be ex-Mrs. Domi has made the marital relationship very much an open book in the last 72 hours.

It’s a story that is finding traction not only in the political section of the nation’s newspapers but in the sports section as well. A quick scan of the Canoe sport site on Tuesday night found five separate stories on Belinda and Tie, and Belinda has never put on a pair of skates, though she apparently has scored once or twice in her career. In fact, a quick glance would show that her stats may be better than Domi’s.

A Google search of Belinda Stronach on Tuesday would give 162 options about young Ms. Stronach and we would wager a safe bet that not many of them were inclined to share her thoughts on political policy.

Of course Belinda comes with a fair amount of relationship baggage, her star crossed or was that floor crossing relationship ended with Peter McKay, the luncheon dates with Bill Clinton, all of it show that her rolodex is very much the A list of the eligible and the not so eligible.

Domi on the other hand, hasn’t had quite the press as his new pal but scandal has apparently knocked on his door as well.

However, the soap opera may soon come to an end, as it's reported that the two sides have come to a temporary settlement in the most celebrated marital break up in a long time. They say that a divorce can be at times a kind of war and if so, then this one seems to have gone thermo nuclear!

And people say Canadians are dull!

Pierre Trudeau, another famous politician with a few hig profile friends over the years, once said that the courts, had no right in the bedrooms of the nation. But it would seem that while the courts should butt out, the average Canadian might be inclined to try and peek through a window from time to time, or at least peek at a paper or a website.

In the end though, it’s a marriage of those two great Canadian loves, hockey and politics, which surely must be a made for TV event if ever there was one.

But alas, in the end this one deserves better than your typical bad Canadian TV version of the movie of the week. A simple re write can move Tie to the Rangers, Belinda to the Democrats and let the bidding begin.