GO HARPER!

Stephen Harper is a man after my own heart.

"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.

Activists say Canada is trying to block a deal to ensure that western nations live up to promises to boost aid to Africa.

For the record, though, Harper said he liked the music of Bono's band U2.

I like U2's music too, but Bono has become known as somewhat a beggar of late. Maybe if he'd quit being such a hypocrite, hiding his money from the taxman?