The Longer I'm Prime Minister: Stephen Harper and Canada, 2006-

The Longer I'm Prime Minister: Stephen Harper and Canada, 2006-

by Paul Wells
The Longer I'm Prime Minister: Stephen Harper and Canada, 2006-

The Longer I'm Prime Minister: Stephen Harper and Canada, 2006-

by Paul Wells

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WINNER 2014 – Ottawa Book Award for Non-Fiction

The definitive portrait of Stephen Harper in power by this country’s most trenchant, influential and surprising political commentator.
 
Oh, he won, but he won’t last. Oh, he may win again but he won’t get a majority. Oh, his trick bag is emptying fast, the ads are backfiring, the people are onto him, and soon his own party will turn on him. And let me tell you, it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy . . .

Despite a constant barrage of outrage and disbelief from his detractors, Stephen Harper is on his way to becoming one of Canada’s most significant prime ministers. He has already been in power longer than Lester B. Pearson and John Diefenbaker. By 2015, and the end of this majority term, he’ll have caught up to Brian Mulroney. No matter the ups and downs, the triumphs and the self-inflicted wounds, Harper has been moving to build the Canada he wants—the Canada a significant proportion of Canadian voters want or they wouldn’t have elected him three times. As Wells writes, “He could not win elections without widespread support in the land. . . . Which suggests that Harper has what every successful federal leader has needed to survive over a long stretch of time: a superior understanding of Canada.”

In The Longer I’m Prime Minister, Paul Wells explores just what Harper’s understanding of Canada is, and who he speaks for in the national conversation. He explains Harper not only to Harper supporters but also to readers who can’t believe he is still Canada’s prime minister. In this authoritative, engaging and sometimes deeply critical account of the man, Paul Wells also brings us an illuminating portrait of Canadian democracy: “glorious, a little dented, and free.”


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780307361349
Publisher: Random House of Canada, Limited
Publication date: 10/22/2013
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 400
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

PAUL WELLS, political editor of Maclean's magazine, has reinvigorated Canadian political writing for more than a decade. His career began in Montreal at The Gazette in 1989; in 1997 he became The Gazette's national affairs columnist, then moved to the National Post for its launch in 1998. In 2003, he joined Maclean's, where he has won two gold National Magazine Awards for his writing on politics. A regular commentator for both English- and French-language television and radio, he is also the author of the bestseller Right Side Up: The Fall of Paul Martin and the Rise of Stephen Harper's New Conservatism. His blog, Inkless Wells, set the standard for political blogging in Canada.

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Ballad of the Old Grey Mayor 1

1 Foot in the Door 13

2 Remedial Reading I 43

3 Los Québécois or, as We Say in English the Québécois 71

4 The Groan Shield 99

5 Excellent Buying Opportunity 139

6 The Short Second Election of 2008 191

7 Mess Until I'm Done 233

8 Remedial Reading II 281

9 Rise Up, Seat of Troubles 307

10 Can't Stop Won't Stop 347

11 Self-Unmade Mail? 377

Epilogue: It's a Big Country 405

Curtain Call: Maximum Harper 411

Acknowledgements 437

Index 441

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