In his new book, Ian Brodie—Harper’s former chief of staff—gives a behind-the-scenes look at how the Tories outmaneuvered Stephane Dion on Afghanistan in 2008
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How Stephen Harper gets to the bottom of something
Paul Wells asks why the PM failed to follow his own precedent
The Commons: Tony Clement defers to the experts
At least when it comes to website design
Stephen Harper’s Spite of Charter, 30th-anniversary edition
The prime minister is hardly trash-talking the constitution here
Robocall, big or small?
The Globe reports that phone records were leaked by unnamed Conservatives for the purpose of suggesting that calls received outside Guelph were mere mistakes. Ian Brodie still frets.
Good to be lucky, lucky to be good
Ian Brodie quibbles with the suggestion that luck explains Stephen Harper’s success.
Not powerful enough to be corrupted
Rest assured, the Canadian news media isn’t nearly powerful enough for anything like the News International scandal to happen here.
The economist
Stephen Harper, September 2008. “My own belief is if we were going to have some kind of big crash or recession, we probably would have had it by now.”
Trivia
WELLS on whether what Harper’s doing with the long-form census matters or not
It doesn’t have to be true, it just has to be plausible
Despite plenty of evidence their efforts will be futile, the people who study such things continue to insist on analyzing the actual usefulness of the Harper government’s crime policy.