Stephen Harper

Stephen Harper: Take his proposed changes to the Elections Act, which would favour the Conservatives gut the power of the chief elections officer Marc Mayrand who had taken the Tories to court for breaking election laws and make it more difficult for voters to cast ballots but easier for political parties to raise money, according to The Star. Take the governments boycott of the opposition from the Aga Khans speech Friday at Massey Hall. Even the MP for the riding, Liberal Chrystia Freeland, was frozen out and Stephen Harper governs not so much for Canada as for his Conservative party. He used to do it by stealth. Now he does it openly, like the Republicans in Washington who, in fact, are beginning to pull back from their partisan brinkmanship just as he is bulldozing ahead with greater arrogance. Take John Bairds highly publicized trip to the Ukraine an unapologetically Conservative mission, not a Canadian one . (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.