A great inside look at PM Harper and the team behind him

Harper’s Braintrust

"In an article that received little attention in the national press (partly because it is behind the CanWest firewall), Nigel Hannaford writes about Harper’s background in Calgary, and a small group of nearly anonymous, middle class friends:"

"Tuesday, January 24, 2006

It’ll take a few years to know if this was the revolution Canada’s left feared, or just a change in government. But, however it turns out, that Stephen Harper is prime minister means a handful of hardly wealthy Calgarians beat Canada’s establishment."

"No doubt, the empire will strike back.".............

"What Harper and his team did means we cannot call them ordinary men. Clearly, they are not. But, they had none of the advantages of wealth and mastery of the nation’s back-channels when they set forth upon their five-year political adventure." ............

"These are decent men. If this is how they treat each other, Canadians should, as Rene Levesque said, take a valium. Change will be tempered with moderation."........

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