From the Guv?s Igloo

We were intrigued when The Wall Street Journal mentioned in a March 2 article that a Canadian comedian had spoofed the governor of Arkansas.

The comedian was Rick Mercer, a cast member of “This Hour Has 22 Minutes,” a television show that is billed as “Canada’s politically incorrect news parody.”

The governor was our very own Mike Huckabee.

Kerry Frasier, a spokeswoman for Satter Street Films, which produces the TV show, said Mercer went to Little Rock to see the governor in the spring of 1999.

Huckabee’s remarks aired during “Talking to Americans,” a segment of the show where Mercer makes fun of Americans for knowing little or nothing about Canada.

What did the governor say?

Mercer had him on film congratulating Canada for building a “national igloo” to protect its Parliament building.

Rex Nelson, Huckabee’s press secretary, said the governor was “just playing along with it” and didn’t believe there was a national igloo in Canada.

The Wall Street Journal article centered on Mercer’s latest victim. Mercer told George W. Bush that Canadian Prime Minister Jean Poutine had endorsed him as “the man to lead the free world into the 21st Century.”

Bush said he was “honored” to be so recognized.

Canada’s prime minister is Jean Chretien. Poutine is a French-Canadian dish of french fries, cheese curds and gravy.