Posted on 13/01/06
The distemper of these times
In the final defining days of this Gilbert and Sullivan campaign, Stephen Harper's reincarnation as a mainstream politician has been traumatic to Canada's body politic. Last time around, the Conservative leader exuded the confused, walleyed aura of a policy wonk travelling on a forged passport, in charge of a party of misfits who had few independently programmed brain cells to rub together. Now, he is the last man standing in this contest of lesser evils, which is what Election 2006 has become.
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