A few days prior to the revelation of her relationship with Domi, MP Stronach had risen in the House of Commons as a champion of Canadian women to lambast Stephen Harper's government for cutting the Status of Women budget, and ending the Law Commission and the Court Challenges program, all destructive feminist enterprises opposed to the traditional family.

Next, Turkish Justice Minister Cemil Cicek used the occasion to lambast European Union countries for their support over the years of "terrorist groups"--by which he meant Kurdish separatists, even though no one had suggested any Kurdish responsibility for the attacks, given their clearly religious nature.

Angela certainly does lambast racial discrimination, but there is little critique of capitalism as a system in the novel as a whole.