Stephen Harper: Grand Plan

Majority Government Dept: A year after the country last went to the polls, Stephen Harper has assumed the near-dictatorial powers of a majority government, apparently with no grand plan for using them, according to CBC. Officially, Bill C-38 is called the jobs, growth and long-term prosperity act, and implements some of the provisions in the recent federal budget "and other measures." A senior Conservative adviser opines the prime minister would have a throne speech this fall to set out a fresh legislative agenda if only the government could find some new initiatives to announce. Instead, the government's way ahead for the coming months was quietly slipped into Parliament one morning last week in an innocuous-sounding legislative bill presented by one of the Conservatives' least prominent ministers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.