The Prime Minister's Special Day
It is Stephen Harper's 50th birthday today; a big day.
As anyone watching the news has seen, the Prime Minister was greeted this morning with the sight of 50 pink flamingoes on the front lawn of 24 Sussex Drive.
He seemed to take the display in good stride, according to Alex Panetta of Canadian Press. The Prime Minister gamely waded on to the lawn, indulgently listened to staffers singing Happy Birthday, and then he crouched down to examine the flamingoes with his daughter, Rachel, at his side before dismissing the media gang.
I'm wondering, though, if Harper really found this whole thing all that special. After all, standing there among all those unspeaking lawn ornaments, it must have felt an awful lot like a cabinet meeting.
"The Prime Minister gamely waded on to the lawn," What? Did nobody throw him a football while he was wading through the labyrinth? Leastways, it'll be of some sentimental value to the PM when he gets to consider his future after the next election. I seem to remember a similar 'pink piggy exhibit' on the lawn of the parliament buildings. ( as consideration of the 'gold-plated' MP pension plan ) We ALL know how that one turned out, don't we. Speaker paraphrased: OK everybody, "Last call!" The crush at the pension plan doorway by CPC / Conservative Reform Alliance Party members, set an all-new level for voter cynicism.
Posted by: Kenneth R Colombo | May 01, 2009 at 05:03 AM
Question - how could a man who spends what he spends on scurity have 50 pink flamingos planted on his lawn without anyone knowing about it. Must have been an inside job eh?
Posted by: Sara-Anne Peterson | May 01, 2009 at 09:21 AM
lol @ the cabinet meeting. Good one.
Posted by: Elizabeth Montgomery/Calgary | May 03, 2009 at 02:12 AM