Apparently,  Twitter is 'the place' to mock Canada's politicians.

On the heels of #tellviceverything and #harperhistory, hundreds of Canadians took to the social media website Tuesday, to poke fun at finance minister Jim Flaherty's "no bad jobs" comment.

As reported by the Canadian Press Monday, Flaherty said new EI rule changes to define "suitable employment" and "reasonable" efforts at finding work have yet to come down, but as far as he's concerned people should be prepared to take pretty well any available job.

"I was brought up in a certain way. There is no bad job, the only bad job is not having a job," he told reporters. "I drove a taxi, I refereed hockey. You do what you have to do to make a living."

Under the hashtag #Flahertyjobs, Canadians shared their sometimes comical job ideas:

Here are some of our favourties:

From @danspeerin:

"The guy who has to explain Climate Change to [environment minister] Peter Kent#flahertyjobs"

From @derrickokeefe:

"Quebec Education Minister. #

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says he's concerned about the latest events in Europe, but feels Canada can withstand any major economic fall-out if things go from bad to worse this week.

Ever since the Greeks went to the polls last week, the country has been gripped by political paralysis. The Greek parliament can't form a new government and the debt-ridden country now faces the risk of being booted from the euro zone — with potentially horrific consequences for all of Europe and its banks.

But speaking to CTV's Question Period on Sunday, Flaherty said Canada's exposure to the European banks is minimal.

"There's no question that if there's a shock, a failure in the banking system in Europe, that it's going to affect us. We think the impact will not be overwhelming and it's manageable," he said.

"We're doing what we can to protect Canada by paying down debt and running balance budgets."

Despite Flaherty's optimism, Europe's troubles are already affecting Canadians. Here's how it could

NDP's new treasury board critic Mathieu Ravignat (Radio Canada photo)The Conservative party recently launched mulcairsndp.ca, in an attempt to paint members of the NDP's shadow cabinet as extreme and radical.

The latest entry probably wrote itself.

On Monday, the Tories highlighted the background of the NDP's new treasury board critic Mathieu Ravignat.

During last year's election campaign, Ravignat made headlines for his very left-wing past. In 1997, as a 24 year old,  he ran as a candidate for the Communist Party of Canada.

The Conservatives think it's odd that the NDP leader Thomas Mulcair would appoint Ravignat to such a high-profile post.

"For the key role of Treasury Board critic Mr. Mulcair selected Mathieu Ravignat. Mr. Ravignat has a history with radicals. In fact he ran for the Communist Party of Canada in the 1997 election. He chose to represent this radical fringe party six years after the fall of the Soviet Union," Ravignat's 'bio' reads on mulcairsndp.ca.

"Mr. Ravignat ran for a party whose platform included advocating mass nationalization

It seems the Harper government has gotten a bad rap about being secretive.

According to a new Canadian Press report, the Martin and Chretien governments were more secretive, at least when it came to holding House of Commons committee business behind closed doors.

"The analysis of meetings from which the public was barred — known as going in camera — shows MPs deliberated in secret for an average of close to two hours a day during Martin's first and only majority session of Parliament in 2004," notes the article published Sunday.

"During the final 2010-11 session of Harper's minority government, committees spent close to 455 hours meeting behind closed doors during the 388-day session, which averages out to one hour and 10 minutes a day."

The CBC's Kady O'Malley disputes some of the Canadian Press' figures and adds that the Library of Parliament information does not reveal how often those meetings went in camera over the protests of the opposition parties.

"You simply can't just add up

While public attention is  waning, the investigation into alleged voter fraud during the 2011 federal election is continuing.

To date, Elections Canada seems to be focused on what happened in Guelph, Ont.

Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher — the two Postmedia News reporters who initially broke the story in February — have also continued peeling off layers of the proverbial robocall onion. They have now written over 40 columns on the topic.

Here's what we now know:

Misleading election day calls in Guelph came from RackNine servers:

At the centre of the controversy in Guelph is RackNine Inc., a small Edmonton call centre that worked for the Tory's national campaign and those of at least nine Conservative candidates, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper's own campaign in Calgary Southwest.

According to McGregor and Maher, RackNine's servers were used to make more than 7,000 calls pretending to come from Elections Canada and directing what appears to be identified non-Conservative

The Conservative attack-ad producers might want to get their storyboards ready.

Despite a relatively strong economy and a year of delivering on their promises, the Stephen Harper Conservatives now find themselves in second place in the opinion polls.

A new Canadian Press Harris Decima survey, published Thursday, indicates the NDP now have 34 per cent of popular support, compared to 30 per cent for the Tories.

Ekos pollster Frank Graves, says there's a lot of issues at play here.

"It is a product of building on success on last election, Mulcair honeymoon and the recent stumbling of Conservatives on robo scandal and the F35 issues," he said in an email exchange with Yahoo! Canada News.

"[The poll] also reflects burgeoning concerns with inequality, increased ideological polarization and growing sense NDP are best political bet for those unhappy with current national direction."

So why aren't the Conservatives going after Mulcair? Just where are those negative attack ads that the

Tory MP Jacques Gourde apparently misses the separatist Bloc Quebecois.

According to the Toronto Sun, the unilingual parliamentary secretary for official languages is upset that members of the NDP aren't speaking enough French in parliament.

"It is an insult to our identity as Quebecers to see the NDP MPs from Quebec put half their questions in English," Gourde said earlier this week.

"When the Bloc Quebecois was there, they asked all their questions in French and it brought a certain proportion of French in the House of Commons."

But as David Akin of the Sun News Network writes, maybe Gourde should  be looking in the mirror.

"According to Hansard, the official record of what was said in the House of Commons, it's Gourde's own Conservatives who spend less time speaking French.  New Democrats have asked questions in French during question period nearly 46 per cent of the time since the election of Thomas Mulcair as their leader," Akin wrote.

"On the other hand, when the government is

Surprise surprise, Canada's defence minister is under fire - again.

This time Peter MacKay is being accused of misleading Canadians on the cost of the mission to Libya.

In a column published Thursday, PostMedia News dug up an old MacKay quote from October where he said total cost to Canadian taxpayers would  be about $50 million.

"As of Oct. 13, the figures that I've received have us well below that, somewhere under $50 million," MacKay said - three days before the end of the mission.

"And that's the all-up costs of the equipment that we have in the theatre, the transportation to get there, those that have been carrying out this critical mission."

But buried in a report tabled in the House of Commons this week are Defence Department figures pegging the full cost of the mission at more than $347.5 million - almost 7 times more than what MacKay had said.

The opposition parties went on the attack in Question Period, Friday.

"What is it this time?" demanded NDP Deputy Leader David