Top 10 good things about Harper, personal and political

When I was Chrétien’s special assistant in opposition, and when the neo-Nazi Heritage Front was infiltrating Reform Party riding associations in Toronto, Stephen Harper actually told Tom Flanagan to send me their relevant membership lists, so I could tell them who was a suspected Nazi. They kicked out the ones I spotted. It impressed both Chrétien and me.

As a war room guy, I always admire a worthy adversary. Stephen Harper was always a worthy adversary. Me and my fellow Grits grossly underestimated him for a decade. We paid the price: in 2006 and 2008 and 2011, he kicked our asses, writes Warren Kinsella.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY WARREN KINSELLA

June 27, 2016

TORONTO—And so it ends, not with a bang, but a whimper. Late last week, in a secluded part of Centre Block, staff were seen packing up Stephen Harper’s parliamentary office. Anyone wandering by could see the moving boxes and the packing tape, in plain view. Harper, the 22nd prime minister of C...

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