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PrintSummer softball season ends, and political hardball starts
But Stephen Harper may yet exit as a winner as did Pierre Trudeau, Brian Mulroney, and Jean Chrétien. They left their parties' defeats to their successors. A structural deficit will be his greatest legacy whether he goes or not.
TORONTO—Summertime and the living was easy, for the government. The Prime Minister posed for photo-ops with other world leaders at the annual G8 and the Three Amigos meetings. Meanwhile, the talks themselves have come to mean less and less each year. Government leaders attend to burnish their credentials as diplomats. The pesky opposition parties abandoned Ottawa in the summer and the Prime Minister traded in the silly looking cowboy hat and boots he wore when in opposition for the dark suits and ties of international summitry. It was good for polishing his image, as was his traipsing around the country to announce, and re-announce, grants and programs. He also appeared like the commander-in-chief defending the true North strong and free in military garb.
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Summer softball season ends, and political hardball starts
But Stephen Harper may yet exit as a winner as did Pierre Trudeau, Brian Mulroney, and Jean Chrétien. They left their parties' defeats to their successors. A structural deficit will be his greatest legacy whether he goes or not.
TORONTO—Summertime and the living was easy, for the government. The Prime Minister posed for photo-ops with other world leaders at the annual G8 and the Three Amigos meetings. Meanwhile, the talks themselves have come to mean less and less each year. Government leaders attend to burnish their credentials as diplomats. The pesky opposition parties abandoned Ottawa in the summer and the Prime Minister traded in the silly looking cowboy hat and boots he wore when in opposition for the dark suits and ties of international summitry. It was good for polishing his image, as was his traipsing around the country to announce, and re-announce, grants and programs. He also appeared like the commander-in-chief defending the true North strong and free in military garb.
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