In time for the federal election that promises to be a referendum on
Stephen Harper's tenure, Party of One is a scathing look at the
majority government of a prime minister determined to remake Canada.
In Party of One, investigative journalist Michael Harris closely
examines the majority government of a prime minister essentially
unchecked by the opposition and empowered by the general election
victory of May 2011. Harris looks at Stephen Harper's policies,
instincts, and the often breathtaking gap between his stated political
principles and his practices.
He argues that Harper is more than a master of controlling information;
he is a profoundly anti-democratic figure. In the F-35 debacle, the
government's sin wasn't only in keeping the facts from Canadians, it was
in inventing them. He illustrates how Harper has made war on every
independent source of information in Canada since coming to power. Here
is a man with a well-defined and growing list of enemies: union members,
scientists, diplomats, environmentalists, First Nations peoples, and
journalists.
With the Conservative majority in Parliament, the law is simple: What
one man, the PM, says, goes.
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