The picture of Stephen Harper gripping a kitten was a dead giveaway that there's a Canadian behind the web phenomenon Smile Like You're Dead Inside (
http://smiledead.com/).
Ryan Pequin, a 25-year-old illustration and design student at Capilano University in B.C., is part of the continental collaboration that created the site.
He calls the Prime Minister "the perfect example of how I envision the concept: a genuinely dead-inside politician grinning robotically and weirdly gripping a kitten in a pathetic attempt to appear human."
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http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/737048---dead-smile-website-features-harper