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Laureen Harper donned rubber boots and spent Thursday like many an Albertan of late: hauling garbage, delivering food and salvaging water-soaked belongings.

The prime minister’s wife, who celebrated her 50th birthday on Sunday, reportedly put in a long day of work in and around Calgary. She helped clear a driveway of rubble,the Calgary Herald reports, “hauling heavy, dangerous items full of rusty nails into the backs of waiting garbage trucks,” assisting in cleaning up and dropping off food at the Morley reserve to Calgary’s west.

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Her political clean-up crew included MPs Rob Anders, Deepak Obhrai, Joan Crockatt, and Rona Ambrose, as well as PMO staffer Veronica Gerson.

A city sanitation worker told the Herald “they’re good workers, that’s for sure.”

Rick Lauzon emerged from his sodden basement to see Ms. Harper helping out.