Remaking Stephen Harper

[CHIMO]

So much for the honeymoon. The morning after the election, a reporter asked Stephen Harper whether he would push forward with a hard-right “radical agenda” now that he had a majority government. The Prime Minister shrugged.

“One thing I've learned in this business is that surprises are generally not well received by the public,” he replied. But there's another thing he has learned.

Mr. Harper has become a successful Prime Minister not by dragging Canada to the right, as so many critics allege. He succeeded because he understood the Canada that is becoming, and shaped his party and policies to fit. He saw the Canada that his opponents couldn't see.

Former Alberta premier Ralph Klein loved to say the secret to political success lies in figuring out where the parade is going, then getting in front of it. The Canadian parade is heading from east to west, from European to Asian, from rural to urban, from expecting more from government to expecting less, from multiparty politics to two-party politics (maybe 2½).

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/john-ibbitson/remaking-stephen-harper-in-canadas-image/article2013255/

Total BS. Logic is made in the writer's mind.

[Kall]

1. John Ibbitson is a pathetic hack

He's just a Conservative schill. All his columns are the same slobbering drivel.