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Re-election bid has Stephen Harper softening his hard edge

Re-election bid has Stephen Harper softening his hard edge Prime Minister Stephen Harper has made a number of recent decisions that stand to recast him in a less adversarial light. No one would describe Stephen Harper as a gambler. This prime minister is usually disinclined to roll the dice unless he is relatively certain they are loaded in his favour. Yet he did just that when he decided to actively support former governor general Michaëlle Jean’s bid to become the head of la Francophonie — the international organization of French-speaking nations. A positive outcome for Jean’s bid was not necessarily… View Article