Congratulations to Stephen Harper, Canada’s eighth longest-serving prime minister

Being a journalist and all, I subscribe to the email lists of the Conservative Party of Canada and other political parties. This means I get super-annoying fundraising emails in my inbox all week long.

Today (September 12), there was something a little different from the Conservatives. The message was from Fred DeLorey, the party's director of political operations.

The email began:

Friend,

Have you looked at the list of longest serving Prime Ministers lately?

Today, Prime Minister Harper passed Louis St. Laurent, and we want to give you an opportunity to congratulate his hard work over this time.

The email went on:

Let's not kid ourselves, this work is far from over. The Liberals ahead of us on this list have been in power for a total of 62 years! It's going to take the PM’s leadership and lots of hard work to get our country back on track after years of Liberal neglect. Simply, we'll need to ask Canadians to give us another majority to keep Canada's success going. We can’t let all our hard work go to waste.

That's it. No plea for money today. Just an invitation for you, dear Stephen Harper supporters, to congratulate the current occupant of 24 Sussex Drive.

So what are you waiting for? You don't want to disappoint Fred, do you?

If you would like to send Canada's eighth longest-serving PM a message on this "historic day", go ahead and take advantage of the form on the Conservative party website.

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