Rick Mercer mocks Stephen Harper and the CBC over panda bears

We all knew this was coming.

CBC's Rick Mercer ranted about Stephen Harper and the pandas on the Rick Mercer Report on Tuesday night.

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Last week, the PMO made a huge spectacle of the prime minister and his wife welcoming the delivery of the two panda bears on loan to Canada from China in an apparent show of diplomacy.

It was a strange day, to say the least. Half the country, it seemed, went gaga over the bears while the other half used it as an excuse to chide the Harper Conservatives.

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Critics took to Twitter to somehow connect 'panda day' with Harper not meeting with the premiers since 2009 while others wondered aloud why Harper would greet the pandas and not a group of Native youth concluding a long trek to Parliament Hill.

It's always nice to have Rick Mercer put things into perspective.

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