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
Alastair Campbell (bioethicist) Award by the Hastings Centre. In 2011, Campbell was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2018, the Singaporean Government awarded him the Public Service Medal (Friends of Singapore) as part of its National Day Awards. Alastair Campbell (bioethicist) Professor Alastair Vincent Campbell MA, BD, ThD, FRSE (born 1938) is a British theologian and bioethicist. His is currently Emeritus Director and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics and received the