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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Harper Calls Chrétien More Conservative than Mulroney
“The [former] Liberal government is more conservative on most issues than the [earlier] Progressive Conservative government. Whatever the Liberals [did] seem[ed] moderate because [we] urge[d] them to go further and faster. Conservative voters [got] better results as outsiders influencing a Liberal government than they did as an inside influence within a Progressive Conservative government.”
Well, that’s [...]
December 15, 2009
Tags: Brian Mulroney, Conservative, Debt, Deficit, Jean Chrétien, Our Benign Dictatorship, Tom Flanagan Posted in: Blog Content Comments Closed
