It couldn't have been a more jarring sight, or a more deeply disturbing one.
For there was Stephen Harper, back from his stunning performance as Great Mother Leader at the United Nations, where he posed as a friend of women and children, and a champion of peace.
Now in an unusually agitated state, bordering on hysteria. Rambling on about the Great War on ISIS.
Trying to make us believe that the caliphate is coming to behead us in our beds.