Stephen Harper used to trumpet his government’s handling of the economy.
In those days, the prime minister portrayed himself as Professor Harper, the bespectacled, cardigan-wearing economist under whose wise leadership Canada avoided the worst of the global recession.
Today, the professor has been replaced by Stephen Harper, Warrior Prince.
The spectacles are gone. The gaze is steely, the rhetoric muscular.
On Monday, Harper used a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to denounce Russian intervention in Ukraine’s civil war. …read more
Source: National Newswatch
