Harper’s pre-taped YouTube interview is late getting started – now 15 minutes and counting…

UPDATE: And the video is up!

Harper goes with the suit and tie, which strikes me as a bit formal for a YouTube video. Yeah, yeah, I’m not expecting torn jeans and a Hannah Montana t-shirt, but maybe he could have gone with the Ahmadinejad-casual look.

So far, tough questions on deficit and foreign aid. Harper dodges them. But still, good on him for doing this interview. I wouldn’t mind seeing this sort of thing from all the party leaders on a semi-regular basis – it gets Canadians engaged, and we’ll get more substance out of this than from 50,000 question periods.