Ok, it's a very small chuckle. Rick Mercer of The Mercer Report fame recently challenged anyone with too much time on their hands to create an image that takes Canada's Prime Minister out of one strange context and insert him in another.On the left we have the original: Prime Minister Harper poses in Zombie-like fashion with what appears to be either a tin of Plutonium or a lovely cheesecake. It wanted a bit of symbolism, so I placed Harper, a staunch westerner, on a rusty tractor so he could take David Emmerson's head to market. Not to be confused with Ralph Waldo, this Emmerson is a former Liberal M.P. who crossed the floor to join Harper's cabinet about 25 seconds after being re-elected. In Canada, some politicians are bought and sold like bushels of wheat. U.S. congress members are a little more expensive, I'm told. This is old news, of course, but it can be legitimately be repeated over and over out of respect for Emerson's constuents who were kicked in their political pearly whites by his defection.
If I was really trying to be fair (ha!), I would have completed the picture by placing Belinda Stronach in front of the tractor. Harper would be unlikely to brake for a Convervative member who defected to the Liberals and quite a few boomer Tories living in Newmarket, Ontario would be cheering him on.On the otherhand, at least Belinda had the grace to defect before any votes were actually cast -- and she was still elected.
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