THE LATEST | CANADAMichael Taube/National Post: Harper was the complete package in Canadian politics. That’s what set him apart from the others, both past and present.
Harper used incremental conservatism to change the public discourse, and never wavered from his ultimate goal of achieving a Conservative Canada within a decade. His policies were numerous, including: reducing the overall size of government, trimming the bureaucracy, lowering personal and corporate income tax rates, launching targeted tax credits, implementing the universal child care benefit and tax-free savings accounts to help individuals and families, arranging the Canada-EU free-trade deal and Trans-Pacific Partnership, strongly supporting the war on terror, providing crucial leadership in Afghanistan, transforming Canada into Israel’s best friend and ally, blasting China’s human rights record and criticizing Russia for invading Ukraine…