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Originally Posted by peter12
Nobody cares about that, only a small cadre of Ottawa media that are easily appeased.
Harper has been acting like every Prime Minister we have ever had. That is, the position is inherent to the centralization of power.
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I don't mean amongst the media. The fact is that Harper has muzzled a lot of his candidates and cabinet ministers in the past and is rather well known as a control freak (for lack of a better term).
My point here though is that Harper is quite widely regarded (even in this thread) as the best of a sad bunch. One can only wonder if the Liberals had not selected Dion as leader whether the situation would be the same...but really after two years of the CPC controlling things and rolling out their agenda they have failed to gain much in the way of popular support. This is in spite of a weak Liberal leader and weak opposition in general, them governing as if they had a majority and calling all the shots.