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Related: About this forumAuthor Michael Harris’s new book is a takedown of Stephen Harper
By the time author Michael Harris nears the end of his magisterial review of the strife and times of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, it is as if he felt the need of a shower.
Almost 500 pages of Party of One: Stephen Harper and Canadas Radical Makeover have by then been devoted to chronicling the Harper governments bullying, abuse, duplicity, betrayal, affinity for crooks, public shaming of individuals, diminishment of democratic institutions.
It was hard every day getting up and working on this particular government, Harris told the Star in advance of the books publication this week. It made you feel poorly.
So in the last chapter he seeks figurative respite. He takes readers on a drive across the Canso Causeway to Cape Breton, N.S., and on to River Bourgeois, there to meet a man worlds away from officialdom, backroomers, talk show know-it-alls.
http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2014/10/19/author_michael_harriss_new_book_is_a_takedown_of_stephen_harper.html
And history will paint those in his caucus with the same brush. As they most rightly deserve!
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Author Michael Harris’s new book is a takedown of Stephen Harper (Original Post)
CHIMO
Oct 2014
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Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)1. Too bad that people who should read it; won't.
The rest of us: We already know,..... we know.....
alcina
(602 posts)2. No kidding
But sadly, just based on that article, I suspect he's even worse than I thought. And I already thought he was pretty horrible.
arikara
(5,562 posts)3. Another article: For Harper, a bad day at the bookstore
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/for-harper-a-bad-day-at-the-bookstore/article21179595/
Its enough to have Stephen Harpers boys out padlocking bookstores.
Two of the Prime Ministers biggest tormentors have released books on the very same day. There is Justin Trudeaus autobiography, Common Ground. On top of it comes a mammoth 534-page critique of his abuse of power called Party of One, from Michael Harris, one of Mr. Harpers harshest journalistic critics.
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Its enough to have Stephen Harpers boys out padlocking bookstores.
Two of the Prime Ministers biggest tormentors have released books on the very same day. There is Justin Trudeaus autobiography, Common Ground. On top of it comes a mammoth 534-page critique of his abuse of power called Party of One, from Michael Harris, one of Mr. Harpers harshest journalistic critics.
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