James Laxer is regularly asked to comment on current national and global issues by the Canadian media and frequently writes columns in major newspapers and periodicals.
“The Great Disconnect: Stephen Harper’s Platform and What Canadians Really Want“
by James Laxer
Excerpts:
If the Conservatives get their majority, the first two years of untrammeled Harper power, will be very sharp indeed. The Conservatives will act on the theory that you front-load the nastiness so that a semblance of calm can be restored during the run-up to the subsequent election.
“You voted for this,” Canadians will be told, by those in the pay of our right-wing Main Stream Media, by the cynical members of the punditry (pretty much the same group), and by those who profit from a society with an ever-wider gap between the rich and the rest.
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A Harper majority need not befall us. We have the time and the means to stop the Sheriff of Nottingham from gaining control of the castle.