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A timely indictment of an prime minister established to remake Canada. In Get together of One, Investigative journalist Michael Harris provides us a romantic look at Stephen Harper and attracts a portrait of an perfect minister whose guidelines and instincts, Harris feels, are a clear and present risk to Canada's democracy. Fueled by the election triumph of May 2011, unchecked by the opposition, the staggering difference between Stephen Harper's stated political concepts and his methods starkly drive Harris' arguments home. Harper, an recognized master at handling information is, Harris argues, profoundly antidemocratic. The Harper government's sins include keeping facts from Canadians and an inclination to invent them (as it do in the F-35 debacle). Since arriving to vitality, Harper has made war on every impartial way to obtain information in Canada. Harris recounts Stephen Harper's well-defined and growing set of enemies, whose perspectives are unwelcome and whose voices are to be suppressed: experts, diplomats, union members, environmentalists, First Nations peoples, and journalists. Counter to the background of a Conservative determination to transparency and accountability, Harris exposes a plan of ultra-secrecy, noncompliance, and dismissiveness. With this Conservative majority in Parliament, regulations is easy: What one man, Stephen Harper, says, will go.
