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I liked Norman Spector’s answer to my question about where Stephen Harper gets his standing to judge other leaders’ moral compasses. Norman writes, “I’d say he’s the cleanest prime minister we’ve had since Pierre Trudeau.” Many will quibble — some already have — with using Trudeau as the golden age of propriety against which assorted successors should be judged. Trivia buffs will feel, vaguely, that Kim Campbell has somehow been wrongly slighted.