OTTAWA - All those soup strainers, horseshoes and finger moustaches that made Parliament Hill look like a bad 1970s cop show are about to meet the razor.
Over the past month MPs and staff were able to raise more than $30,000 for prostate cancer research.
Their itchy efforts were part of the charitable phenomenon "Movember," during which men across the globe tried their hand at some face furniture.
Dozens of members of Parliament jumped quickly on the bristly bandwagon, many of them citing NDP Leader -- and cancer patient -- Jack Layton as their inspiration.
Some of the 'staches were spectacular -- New Democrat MP Pat Martin's walrus was dubbed "road kill" by a colleague; Liberal Wayne Easter's multicoloured, misplaced eyebrow earned him the nickname "Magnum P.E.I."
Liberal MP Justin Trudeau, one of the organizers of the Parliament Hill fundraiser, sported a finger moustache that he said was modelled after a musketeer.
Fair-haired Liberal Foreign Affairs critic Bob Rae earned his share of teasing for his nearly transparent dusting of lip fuzz.
All except for the few who had a previous love affair with facial hair said they couldn't wait for the clean shave on Dec. 1.
Manuary? Not so much.
