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: , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  7 Comments

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: , , , , ,   Posted in: Published  One Comment

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: , , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  One Comment