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Mar 24, 2014johnsankey rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Insightful as always, Wells proposes that Harper plans to make Canada conservative by preventing anyone else from keeping it liberal, and that his primary weapon is to make many small changes that accumulate rather than grand schemes that could polarize the opposition. Curiously, Wells doesn't mention the tactic that in my view Harper used so effectively to survive minority government: continuously providing the opposition an issue to furiously fight over that was irrelevant to voters outside the Ottawa bubble. And, a large part of this book is a detailed history of the first 6 years of the Harper Government, not the exciting stuff of Wells' first book; a better editor should have trimmed those parts.