Former Cons and probably still are Cons, have the knives out for their leader, Harper. "“He can be suspicious, secretive, and vindictive, prone to sudden eruptions of white-hot rage over meaningless trivia, at other times falling into week-long depressions in which he is incapable of making decisions,” Mr. Flanagan writes. “I feared, as I still do, that he might some day bring himself down Nixon-style by pushing too hard against the network of rules constraining authority in ...a constitutional government.”
Mr. Flanagan, who also describes Mr. Harper as intelligent and hard-working, said the Prime Minister frequently treats people as “disposable.” The disposed, he writes, include former cabinet minister Helena Guergis, the three senators, Mr. Wright and former prime minister Brian Mulroney.
“So I can count myself in pretty good company among those who have been crushed by Harper’s PMO,” Mr. Flanagan writes. The author said his personal relationship with Mr. Harper ended when he refused to kill Harper’s Team."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/pm-harpers-former-adviser-to-release-book-in-early-may/article17911256/
Harper’s former adviser to release book in early May
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is reputed to be a man with a penchant for control, a leader with a grip on the Conservative communications machine.
So when one of his former advisers several years ago wrote an insider book called Harper’s Team, the Prime Minister’s Office, the author says, asked him not to publish it.
That writer, Tom Flanagan, now is back with a forthcoming book, Persona Non Grata: The Death of Free Speech in the Internet Age, that speaks of Mr. Harper in “Nixonian” terms, as a man who “believes in playing politics right up to the edge of the rules, which inevitably means some team members will step across ethical or legal lines in their desire to win for the Boss.”
IMO those Canadians who did not vote for Harper are of the opinion that Stephen Harper has and does push the envelope of legality. His obsession with power and control is evident in how he has ordered the various Ministers to exert control of those services such as the Federal Police, who are supposed to serve and protect the Canadian public, and not support the questionable actions of our government.
Where are the charges on Harpers friends?????
“So I can count myself in pretty good company among those who have been crushed by Harper’s PMO,” Mr. Flanagan writes. The author said his personal relationship with Mr. Harper ended when he refused to kill Harper’s Team."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/pm-harpers-former-adviser-to-release-book-in-early-may/article17911256/
Harper’s former adviser to release book in early May
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is reputed to be a man with a penchant for control, a leader with a grip on the Conservative communications machine.
So when one of his former advisers several years ago wrote an insider book called Harper’s Team, the Prime Minister’s Office, the author says, asked him not to publish it.
That writer, Tom Flanagan, now is back with a forthcoming book, Persona Non Grata: The Death of Free Speech in the Internet Age, that speaks of Mr. Harper in “Nixonian” terms, as a man who “believes in playing politics right up to the edge of the rules, which inevitably means some team members will step across ethical or legal lines in their desire to win for the Boss.”
IMO those Canadians who did not vote for Harper are of the opinion that Stephen Harper has and does push the envelope of legality. His obsession with power and control is evident in how he has ordered the various Ministers to exert control of those services such as the Federal Police, who are supposed to serve and protect the Canadian public, and not support the questionable actions of our government.
Where are the charges on Harpers friends?????
Harper sure sounds bipolar to me.
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