How Harper Turned Canada into a Rogue State

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How Harper Turned Canada into a Rogue State

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As economy stumbles, our self-styled wartime prime minister bets on fear.

By Crawford Kilian, 26 Mar 2015, TheTyee.ca

Stephen Harper's greatest booster for the 2015 federal election unfortunately can't vote for him: Michael Zehaf-Bibeau died last October in a hail of bullets.

In the space of a few dramatic minutes, Zehaf-Bibeau saved the Conservative Party of Canada from having to fight an election on the economy, and threw them the lifeline of a dubious war.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a guy who reportedly cowered in a closet while the guns roared in the hallway, has collected his wits and mapped out a whole new course to a new majority with admirable speed. By parlaying one mentally ill drug addict into a terrorist threat, he created the embryo of a Canadian police state in Bill C-51. Meanwhile, riding on the slipstream of the Americans' attacks on the Islamic State, he has found an unrelated casus belli, a cause for war, just as George W. Bush did after 9/11.

In doing so, Harper has vindicated Archimedes, who said "Give me a lever and a place to stand, and I will move the world." Michael Zehaf-Bibeau gave him the lever, and the Islamic State gave him a place to stand.

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