Canadian Tory MP to his South Asian constituents: Do you speak 'Indian'?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/tory-mp-to-his-south-asian-constituents-do-you-speak-indian/article2309781/

Conservative MP Wladyslaw Lizon has raised a little ridicule by sending a survey out in his ethnically diverse riding asking constituents if they speak “Indian.”

The problem, of course, is that there is no such language. In India, there are 29 languages each spoken by more than a million people, like Hindi, Bengali, Tamil and Punjabi. English, though the first language of few Indians, often serves as a common tongue.

... A Toronto-area Liberal MP, Jim Karygiannis, issued a press release calling the mailer insulting, comparing it to asking someone if they speak Canadian or Mexican.