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Originally Posted by morgin
I'm pretty lefty on a lot of things, but this "Harper breaks the law, Harper destroys the environment, Harper ate a cat" trend of referring to the gov't as being soley Stephen Harper is super annoying. Fortunately when I hear it I can immediately discount most opinions by whichever group is up in arms, because they clearly have no concept of how executive leadership works and what delegation of authority is.
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There are a couple things:
1) Jenni Byrne was and is Harper's right hand lady. There is no political operative that is more powerful nor is there a political operative that reports directly to Harper moreso than Jenni.;
2) Byrne had real and apparent authority to bind the Party. Harper is the head of the CPC. Given the fact that she is not some mindless underling, but rather Harper's right hand lady, it seems somewhat less of a stretch to say that what happened in Saskatchewan came either directly from Harper or was fairly close. You are not talking about some kid kicking over lawn signs on this one.
But they have a history of top political aides (Patrick Muttart anyone) doing at best ethically questionable things and at worse illegal things (Hello Carson) but of course Harper has no idea what his top political advisors are doing.