Whee! After nine years, today is Stephen Harper's last day as Prime Minister. We cats say to Canadians, we feel not only your pain but your utter relief.
We hope that after tomorrow's installment of Justin Trudeau and his new Liberal majority in Ottawa, Canadians will enjoy the kind of moment we Americans did in January 2009, when the Worst Person Who's Ever Lived left Washington in a helicopter and everybody cheered.
Meanwhile, it's interesting that in his final hours, Harper tried to make nice with the Canadian civil service he so abused. Like Republicans in this country, he apparently thought that if he didn't mention how he cut public-employee jobs, demanded partisanship or muzzled climate scientists, those actions simply didn't exist.
Nice try, Stevie. The Public Service Alliance of Canada punched back right away with a pretty blistering statement: "It is unfortunate that the Conservative government was not able to recognize the important contribution of public service workers during their mandate. We look forward to building a positive and constructive relationship with the new Liberal government where trust and respect for public service workers is restored.''
We have a proposal for the new Prime Minister: Is it possible to give "Harperman" composer Tony Turner his government job back? We know he retired to avoid persecution, but that would make us PURR.
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