Leadership isn’t just busy work

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is more Chrétien than Martin. Almost two years into a first mandate, the Prime Minister is advancing an agenda of many small parts while leaving bigger stuff for later.

It's not the most exhilarating of available definitions but practising politicians understand that leadership is often about looking busy while doing as little as possible. Jean Chrétien made governing seem easy by letting time solve problems while Paul Martin made it impossibly hard by ta...

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