Research Group: Harper Years

research group: Yet those who know him well say the common Kenney caricature a rumpled, social conservative, partisan spear carrying culture warrior with a permanent five o'clock shadow almost entirely misses the mark, according to National Observer. He's one of the warmest, funniest, most engaging people ... whereas on television he probably comes across as more associated with the Harper years and a certain style of politics, says Mark Cameron, a former policy director in Harper's Prime Minister's Office who now heads an environmental research group. Kenney, the 48 year old star lieutenant to former prime minister Stephen Harper, was one of the highest profile and most media accessible ministers during a decade of Conservative rule that wasn't characterized by either trait. Political reporters know Kenney as the guy who always had a point of view and was willing to share it and vigorously defend it a rare trait in any government and pure gold during the buttoned down Conservative reign. Kenney announced Wednesday he is taking that direct engagement back home to Alberta, where he plans to seek the leadership of the provincial Progressive Conservatives while openly gunning for a merger with their bitter right of centre rivals, the Wildrose Party. What people are reading The future of the Conservative Party and how Trump's America strong-armed Canada Global LNG terminal survey casts doubt on industry as safe bet'Trudeau takes a pass on meeting this week with Trump That's definitely his hallmark, that he's open, he's engaged and he likes to state his opinion and argue it openly, as opposed to always couching behind message lines, says Cameron. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.