So, there's this phone, see? And this phone just so happened to belongto a CBC producer in Ottawa. And last night, just as it was born to do,it RANG!

On the other end was an actual non-recorded human voice -- male -- conducting a poll on behalf of her local Conservative MP, Pierre Poilievre.

Curious, she participated in the poll, which was clearly trying to gauge her interest in an election now and who she'd support -- whileever-so-subtly reminding her about the home renovation tax credit andfederal infrastructure money to build the Strandherd Bridge in herriding, brought to her by the Harper government.

The pollster was very quick and unscientific didn't ask her name, age or occupation, she said.

Said CBC producer also found the language used by the pollsterinteresting. He didn't use the word "Liberal," but used MichaelIgnatieff's name. But when the pollster referred to the other parties,he did so by party name.

He also asked if she'd support the "Ignatieff-NDP-Bloc coalition" andwas unresponsive when she asked him about the current Conservative-NDPinterlude/bromance/whatchamacallit in the House of Commons.

"Really no sense of humour with these guys," our producer said.