AfterHarper

Here is a pithy summaryof Harper's transformation of Canada:

"Harper's raison d'être: making Canada unrecognizable. This entails ensuring Canadians see the country "in a different light: as an energy and resource superpower instead of a country of factories and businesses, as 'warrior nation' instead of a peacekeeper, as an Arctic nation instead of clusters of cities along the American border, as a country of self-reliant entrepreneurs instead of a nation that shares among its people and its regions."

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And here is a article outlining the challenges any political party would face in reversing Harper's vandalism:

It would be much easier to attack Stephen Harper, get elected, and then operate on Harper's terms within the gutted wreck he has made of Parliament. The attractions of a powerful Prime Minister's Office and a well-whipped caucus would be seductive to a shaky new PM.
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It's even more awkward because the Americans went through a similar process in 2008 after eight years of George W. Bush, the surveillance state, wars of choice and Islamophobia. Barack Obama's hope and change didn't shut down Guantanamo, reduce the snooping, or make America a happier country.
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The NDP and Liberals have paid grudging tribute to Stephen Harper's political genius by their silence on basic issues, like taxes.
That silence implies that we ourselves will return crippled from a decade of Harper's ideology, locked into the Canada he built.
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Well, let's think about a Canadian Restoration...


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