Today is the Day

President Obama comes to Canada.
Well, it's jsut a "pit stop" as one wag put it.
Mr Harper, who has been lower than a well-tromped carpet lately, will meet and discuss a few issues with him.
There 's no doubt that they will get along well-enough to be civil, but no one can possibly think that they will "like" each other. Like oil and water.
Mr Harper continues his mean-spirited ways, by arranging lunch in the dining room of the Speaker of the Senate, not the House. The Speaker of the House, of course, is a Liberal, and Harper wouldn't want to give the Liberals any more air time with the President than he can get away with. And, to that end, he has cut the meeting time of Michael Ignatieff and President Obama down to 15 minutes, from an earlier listing of half an hour.
As one letter-writer in The Globe and Mail said today, Mr Harper makes no effort to connect with Canadian voters/citizens, about as far away from Obama's modus operandi as one can get.

What a sad, frustrated, and out-of-touch example Stephen Harper is. No leader there.

One would think that with a new leader in the USA, it might be a positive thing to take a positive, concensus-building attitude to this country. That, however, is out of character for the PM. Pity. And, WE are the losers.