This Hour Has 22 Minutes publicity for the show and contributed to the general air of farce surrounding Day's election campaign. Day did, however, have a very appropriate response to the petition: ""Que será, será"." It was later revealed by Alastair Campbell, former aide to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, that Prime Minister Jean Cretien and the Liberal Party had come up with the idea- not Mercer or the show's writers. 2003–04 – Shaun Majumder, in character as "Raj Binder", was sent to report on the 2003 outdoors Edmonton Oilers and Montreal Canadiens old timers game, preceding the night's actual NHL regular season game, which
Sterling Campbell (director) Sterling Campbell (director) Sterling Carl Campbell (1896/97 - September 6, 1990) was a Canadian aviator and film director best known for the 1947 film "Bush Pilot", one of the first narrative feature films ever produced by a Canadian film production company. Campbell served in the Canadian Army during World War I. He later worked in Hollywood, California as a technical and action assistant director, including the films "Wings", "Dawn Patrol", "Hell's Angels", "Air Circus", "Legion of the Condemned", "Forced Landing" and "Ceiling Zero", and as an assistant to Cecil B. DeMille and Howard Hawks. He also had minor acting roles