Leftist Echos of Harper’s ‘97 Essay “Our Benign Dictatorship”
In 1997, Stephen Harper and Tom Flanagan jointly penned an essay titled “Our Benign Dictatorship” in which they laid out why the Liberal government of the time was essentially undefeatable, as well as what would be required for it’s defeat. Namely, they pointed to electoral co-operation (between Reform and the PCs) in the form of [...]
February 8, 2010
Tags: Coalition, Elizabeth May, Jack Layton, Liberal Party of Canada, Michael Ignatieff, Our Benign Dictatorship, Progressive Conservative, Reform Party, Stephen Harper, The Tyee, Tom Flanagan Posted in: Blog Content
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Published in the National Post ~ Derek Fildebrandt: Make Senate reform a confidence vote
The following article appears in the January 25, 2010 edition of the National Post, & Canada Free Press.
Few politicians are thought to have Senate reform in their blood the way Prime Minister Stephen Harper does. Having campaigned for it beginning in the late 1980s and winning two general elections with it as a significant part [...]
January 25, 2010
Tags: Canada Free Press, Emperor Caligula, National Post, Reform Party, Senate Reform, Stephen Harper Posted in: Published
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Representations of Reform: A Paper on a New Party’s Siege of Ottawa
The following essay is an academic paper produced in the spring of 2008.
June 13, 2009
Tags: Dark Age of Conservatism, Preston Manning, Progressive Conservative, Reform Party, Social Credit, Western Populism Posted in: Blog Content
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