UPDATE: Tim Naumetz from the The Ottawa Citizen runs with the Elizabeth May blog today and it makes it to the Canada.com web site. Let the photo mash ups begin.
Rafe Mair certainly thinks that our Premier feels like a king in the legislature, and Elizabeth May recently went back to the Opposition and Government Lobby Halls of Ottawa to help out with a student exercise and what she found there is downright creepy:
It used to have some paintings on the wall. Past prime ministers, certainly a formal portrait of the Queen. Landscapes. I know there was the occasional photo of current Prime Ministers, but when I walked in this time, I felt chilled to the bone. Every available wall space had a large colour photo of Stephen Harper. Stephen Harper at Alert. Stephen Harper in fire fighter gear. Stephen Harper at his desk. Stephen Harper meeting the Dalai Lama. Even the photo of the Queen showed her in the company of Stephen Harper. None were great photos. None were more than enlarged snapshots in colour. They didn’t feel like art.
The student with me said it was the same in Langevin Block, the Prime ministers Office. Photos of Stephen Harper everywhere.