With everything that’s going on in Canada these days if I got the chance to ask Stephen Harper a question it would deal with something like our national failure to live up to constitutional obligations under various Aboriginal treaties and land claims agreements, or Arctic sovereignty, or free trade, or why we recognize Kosovo while leaving Taiwan hanging, or about the Canadian mission in Afghanistan, or Radarsat-2, or real democratic reform, or the conduct of MPs in the House, or any number of other issues of national substance.

Blogging Tory Brian of At Home in Hespeler got the chance and stepped gamely up to the plate with “Where’s your wife?”

That’s it? Of all the potential questions that could have been asked that the blogosphere might possibly be interested in Brian blogged about asking the Prime Minister of Canada “Where’s your wife?”

Once upon a time I got to meet, and chat across the table for about 20 minutes, with Jean Chretien when he was Prime Minister… and, IIRC, in that time I managed to fit in free trade, Meech Lake, Pierre Trudeau, and fishing.

Rest assured, if I had been so tongue tied and golly-gosh that I couldn’t do any better than “Where’s Aline?” you wouldn’t be reading about the encounter at all.

Brian says there’s more details coming tomorrow….. gee-wiz, the anticipation is killing me, how will I ever sleep tonight?