Linda McQuaig
Majority is heard at last

When Barack Obama was elected president on that electrifying night early last month, it became clear – if it wasn't already – why Stephen Harper had rushed Canadians to the polls a few weeks earlier.

The last thing Harper would have wanted was to run for re-election after Americans had chosen a historic figure who promised to overturn the very Bush agenda to which Harper had so resolutely clung.

In particular, Harper was saddled with a history of lining up ever so ...

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