Fragile status of Prime Minister Harper’s government forcing it to draw from a more nuanced palette

Given Stephen Harper's visceral suspicions of the federal senior civil service, no one seriously expected the new Prime Minister to ask a career diplomat to act as his government's point man in Washington.

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