Stephen Harper: Government

Conventional Wisdom Dept: More and more businesspeople have been entering politics, and it has become conventional wisdom to treat citizens as consumers of government, according to The Star. Back in the days when Stephen Harper was a little more relaxed about how he dealt with the media, we were panellists together on a noontime radio show and over the past 30 years or so, it has somehow become gospel: not only should government be business-friendly, it should act like a business. But maybe it is time, as Donald Savoie argues in his new book , to stop seeing government as a race to the bottom line. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.