Ottawa

Apparently, Pierre Trudeau isn’t the only one who haunts us still ...

UPDATE – Well, huh. I guess they do. That’s … actually kind of unsettling.

Look – it’s the Ghost of Prime Minister Past, lurking in an apparently forgotten image directory:

Boo!
(If the above image suddenly disappears, we'll know someone in the PMO IT department reads macleans.ca.)

For anyone who missed it, here’s what was on the PMO webserver until, oh, noon-ish or so today, under the otherwise innocuous file name “splash.jpg”:

Trust me, you don’t want to know how I wound up stumbling across this.

UPDATE: Another blast from the past: The earliest available incarnation of pm.gc.ca, circa 1996, courtesy of archive.org: