Summer softball season ends, and political hardball starts

But Stephen Harper may yet exit as a winner as did Pierre Trudeau, Brian Mulroney, and Jean Chrétien. They left their parties' defeats to their successors. A structural deficit will be his greatest legacy whether he goes or not.

TORONTO—Summertime and the living was easy, for the government. The Prime Minister posed for photo-ops with other world leaders at the annual G8 and the Three Amigos meetings. Meanwhile, the talks themselves have come to mean less and less each year. Government leaders attend to burnish th...

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