Dan Gardner in the Ottawa Citizen on the bare knuckle politicking that is going on now. Readers will remember that the original "Enemies List" was compiled by Richard Milhous Nixon, a lifelong politician whose defining qualities were tactical ruthlessness and a burning sense of resentment for "eastern elites." Sound familiar? I don’t buy the argument [...]
Stephen Harper
Harper’s Diplomacy
Scott Taylor talks about the problems with Harper’s Camp Mirage diplomacy For one thing, the location of Camp Mirage was always a closely protected secret. This was not done out of fear that terrorists would overrun the Canadian base, but rather to lessen the impact on the host nation regarding relations with its neighbouring states. [...]
Why being a politician is no fun
Great post by David Atkin And now we have Stephen Harper’s rock concert. For the last several weekends, the prime minister has been having some buddies over to his house to play a little music in the basement. They managed to put together a decent little five-song set and thought it would be fun to [...]
Preston Manning was right
According to Warren Kinsella anyways The second lesson of that historic night is this: As long as the Bloc Québecois exists – and as long as vote-rich Ontario remains split between Tories, Grits and New Democrats – no party will be able to win a majority in the House of Commons. Prime Minister Stephen Harper [...]
The H-word
Lawrence Martin on what he learned about Prime Minister Stephen Harper during the writing of Harperland This is a prime minister with a mind of great depth and reach in terms of knowledge of public affairs. The people I interviewed were constantly amazed by his discipline, how much he knew. He would go into a [...]
Why the Liberals Decided to Pull the Plug
From Jane Taber in the Globe and Mail. The bottom part of the quote is what interested me. The strategy, ironically, was set with the help of Mr. Harper during his negotiations with Mr. Ignatieff: In return for supporting the Tory budget bill last June, the Prime Minister agreed to Mr. Ignatieff’s request for a [...]
Archives
Jason Kottke is writing about how the new Whitehouse.gov website doesn’t archive old Presidential websites. As I have written about before, the Canadian Prime Minister’s website does just as poor job of preserving the archives of Canadian Prime Ministers. While I was looking around online to see if I could find the archives of the [...]
