Here’s where power has headed, sadly

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has learned well how to exercise, maintain, and expand power, as well as those of the Karl Rove school of campaigning—controlled dispatches combined with a permanent, pervasive attack on the opposition and its leader.

The steady centralization and concentration of executive power, specifically in the Prime Minister and his office, is not exclusive to Canada; it has occurred in Britain, Australia, continental Europe, and elsewhere. In Canada, however, the phenomenon extends to an exceptional degree and the medi...

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