It's nice to see Canada having a bit more flair. Yesterday, current Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper decided to decline a meeting with U2 star Bono.
"I've got to say that meeting celebrities isn't kind of my shtick, that was the shtick of the previous guy," said Harper in a dig at his Liberal predecessor Paul Martin, who met Bono regularly.
"I hope we do it at some point but my principle focus in public policies is not kind of to meet celebrities," added the prime minister, a Conservative.
The Reuters story says Bono has met with George W. Bush and Angela Merkl already, but Harper says he's too busy to meet the star.
While relieving debt to African nations is a laudable goal, it's nice to come across a politician who is more concerned with actual politics instead of photo-ops with celebrities.
