The CBC sagely intones:
“Two high-profile international events bookended Harper’s year: welcoming the immensely popular U.S. President Barack Obama to Ottawa in February and making an overdue sojourn to China in December. Both generated mainly positive reviews.”
Wow, our PM is really rocking the house with deeply important meetings and visits vital to all Canadians. 
“Harper began the year facing huge political potholes at home but opted to hit the road internationally — a time-honoured coping mechanism of Canadian prime ministers.”
I guess we can gloss over stimulus-gate, the imperial misadventure in Afghanistan, and the perilous state of the Canadian social fabric.
“Move along move along…nothing to see here….”
*rolls eyes*
bleatmop
Mystro
The Arbourist
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January 6, 2010 at 10:19 am
Moe
OMG, is that picture really you Prime Minister?!!! Wow. Needs wide distribution I think. Heh.
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January 6, 2010 at 4:56 pm
The Arbourist
LoL.
I hate to promote the backwoods/backwater image of Canada, but rest assured his politics are quite far to the right, at least for Canadian standards.
Obama has toned down his insipidness. Thank you USA.
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January 6, 2010 at 5:27 pm
Moe
Oh, but it’s a delightful and amusing picture. Anything we can do to embarass Mr. Harper, yes?
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