Proroguing politician confronted in cashmere coat

“Facebook is yesterday’s fad,” Matt Gurney tells the olds reading the National Post for perspective on the Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament rallies across the country on Saturday afternoon: “I’m of the Facebook generation, writes Gurney. “For the first few months, it was an extremely enjoyable way to waste a few hours, catching up with people you hadn’t thought of in years, checking out pictures of old classmates. It was fascinating to see the changes. Who got hot? Who got ugly? In one particularly memorable instance, who was apparently now a male?” Also working the generation gap, John Moore of Newstalk 1010, no Stephen Harper fan, garrulously dubious about the protest turnouts. Miles Storey, who takes pictures for Torontoist, was accused of avoiding any high-angle shots at Yonge-Dundas Square to make it look like there was a larger local turnout. (His response: “Politely, fuck you.”) So, after making a media icon of a guy who works at Home Depot — and knew how to start a group on Facebook — the professional punditocracy have no choice but to crank it up. But now the Conservative MPs in their two-month break are apparently being confronted by their constituents. Some proof emerged via the hallowed hallways of York University, where industry minister Tony Clement was taking a hard hat tour of new construction, only to be cornered at the back door he was trying to sneak out of — feeding back enough irony to feed the CAPP cause for another day. “All you have to do is vote us out,” said Clement. “I’m not proud of stunts.”