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Your next governor general

by Aaron Wherry on Sunday, April 11, 2010 7:20pm - 57 Comments

The Prime Minister leaks his pick via Twitter.

Analysts predict the move will anger the Prime Minister’s hipster base.

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  • Dot

    Do horizontal stripes make you look fat, or is it vertical? Ahh, never mind – this is Canada. Do both.

    "Roll" camera.

  • Eva

    HAHAHAHAHA

  • Anon001

    On a different subject, PM Harper is off to Washington DC for the Nuclear Summit tomorrow.

    Strangely, the US President doesn't appear to be meeting with Harper, at least not according to this schedule (http://fpc.state.gov/139963.htm). Maybe, they will meet in the washroom or something.

    Anyone know what Harper will be doing there or who he will be meeting with?

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/Mike514 Mike514

      He'll probably meet with the 49 other heads of state.

      And it's probably a safe bet that the president will meet with the PM. Do you really believe the two won't meet simply because there's no bilateral meeting scheduled? It's also the case for Italy, France, Belgium, Australia, and several dozen other countries. I would expect Obama to meet with all of them, despite no bilateral meetings scheduled.

      But I agree: Obama not holding a bilateral meeting with Harper (along with 42 other heads of state) will certainly ring alarm bells for some, most acutely in the Canadian media. I expect headlines to scream about irrelevant, blown-out-of-proportion details that will overshadow the actual substance of the conference. Especially bathroom- and picture-related incidents. Those are most important.

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/Thwim Thwim

      Dick Cheney, I expect.

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/Fish_30 Al O'Wishes

      Anyone know what Harper will be doing there or who he will be meeting with?

      Is there a new Tim Hortons opening in DC?

      • Ted

        If there is, Harper will take credit for it, just like he took credit for Tim Horton's staying in Canada.

  • Blues Clair

    These two together makes sense. Critics laugh, yet they are consistently successful.

    "Nickelback are a gnarled, vulgar band reveling in their ignorance of the very notion of taste, lacking either the smarts or savvy to wallow in bad taste so they just get ugly, knocking out knuckle-dragging riffs that seem rarefied in comparison to their thick, boneheaded words."
    - Stephen Thomas Erlewine

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/psiclone psiclone

      So True! Blues – I call it the Sarah Palin effect .. for some reason certain people drive left wing loonies completely crazy – it's a true mark of outstanding leadership ability and I find it to be a particualrly endearing quality!

      • Blues Clair

        Eghads! My comment has ensnared a wingnut.

  • http://nottawa.blogspot.com Mark

    This photo is easily explained. PMO probably thinks Nickelback is an anti-GST lobby group.

  • Terren

    Sure, take our PM and put him beside the best representative of white trash middle of the road Canada.
    YUCK.

    • Mike T.

      My mind is made up. Obviously the critics calling Wherry a partisan hack were right all along!

    • Ted

      Sure, take one of most successful muscians and put him beside the best representative of white trash middle of the road Canada. YUCK.

      • sbt

        Harper's NAC performance was alright but I would hardly call him one of our most successful musicians.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Ricard_S_Argent Richard_S_Argent

    Remember when the Harpers tried to connvince us that they listened to Rural Alberta Advantage?
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/the-ha…

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/MacCross MacCross

    Closet Marxist?

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/doug_rogers doug_rogers

      Almost certainly

      • http://intensedebate.com/people/A_logician A_logician

        I don't know about his Marxism, but that shirt should go back in the closet.

        • http://intensedebate.com/people/janicemaerose janicemaerose

          Closet? Do you inferring something about gays? Is SH GAY???

          • http://intensedebate.com/people/MacCross MacCross

            Red shirts aren't gay. Sweater vests are gay.

          • http://intensedebate.com/people/janicemaerose janicemaerose

            Ah, the sweater was out of the closet, not him.

        • http://intensedebate.com/people/OntarioTown OntarioTown

          I think he wore that shirt at the last Calgary Stampede

  • Jim Connell

    "Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit outta my hat"…
    "agaaaaain?"

  • MacLean's Regular

    Game over man, GAME OVER! Connies lead by 10 points in latest <a href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/Tories+point+lead+over+Liberals+poll/2789877/story.html">Ipsos-Reid poll.

    With 0% undecided. 0%!!!

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/DerekPearce DerekPearce

      Well we'll see if it's replicate elsewhere, and we'll see what the Guergis effect is too. Don't break out the champers just yet.

      • http://intensedebate.com/people/OntarioTown OntarioTown

        0 undecided? That's a little strange.

  • MacLean's Regular

    Pardon my inelegant html.

    *sigh*

  • jarrid

    Re: Tiggy's breaking news of a 10 point Conservative lead in the latest Ipsos-Reid poll.

    A few comments. The Liberals have been chasing barking up the wrong tree on things like Afghan detainees etc. The economy is getting stronger. Iggy's been in the news a lot lately.

    That's why the poll numbers showing the Conservatives with a comfortable 10 point lead. And of those factors, the last one is the really the Conservative's ace in the hole.

    • Blues Clair

      Is that you Darrell Bricker?

    • MacLean's Regular

      "Chasing barking."

      *snort*

      Cut back on the meth, weirdo.

      • http://intensedebate.com/people/janicemaerose janicemaerose

        LOL!

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/doug_rogers doug_rogers

    Re: Tiggy's breaking news of a 10 point Conservative lead

    That's it! The shirt is Teflon!

  • Anon Liberal

    The only thing that could make this more perfect would be a box of Timbits.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/doug_rogers doug_rogers

    Red shirt? Secretly a Liberal? or siding with the Thais overthrowing the government?

    • Ted

      No, he was just back from the red collar protest rally in Québec City.

      • http://intensedebate.com/people/doug_rogers doug_rogers

        I can see Harper n that crowd hawking the baloney sandwiches.

    • Poker Face

      Actually, Eddie Bauer had a sale in their "Terrible Men's Shirts" department… this picture can now hurt my ears AND my eyes.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Thwim Thwim

    Funny, here I was going to say the same thing about the Chad Kroeger.

  • Erik

    Suck up!

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Stewart_Smith Stewart_Smith

    I suspect the shirt was originally a tablecloth.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/M_A_N M_A_N

    It's good to be old. I didn't even know who that was when I saw the picture. The fershuggin music, that I know. but that guy with the funny shaped head, him I didn't know. Err, the musician, that is. I know the Prime Minister.

  • hector doink

    i propose ashley macisaac

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Tceh Tceh

    Stompin Tom Connor never looked so good.

  • Samantha

    ROmeo Dallaire for gov. general not a boy band.
    Wawaweewa Harper is a joke

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/jmckinnell Jonathan McKinnell

    Don't scare me like that Wherry, I thought you were serious for a moment.

  • Lord Kitchener's Own

    Looked at from another angle, having Chad Kroeger as Governor General could provide Canadians with an invaluable public service.

    What a small price to pay to guarantee no new albums from Nickelback until 2015.

  • Cam

    Aaron please pull a Taber and breathlessly tell us about the PM's weight loss. Whoops, looks like you weren't fast enough.

    He got heavy again. Working on a hockey book will do that.

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