Calgary academic and Harper advisor Tom Flanagan has more influence on Canadian politics than most people in this country realize. He was an important informant in Lawrence Martin’s imporant book, “Harperland”.
A good quote from Flanagan, on pg. 47 of Harperland:
Calgary academic and Harper advisor Tom Flanagan has more influence on Canadian politics than most people in this country realize. He was an important informant in Lawrence Martin’s imporant book, “Harperland”.
A good quote from Flanagan, on pg. 47 of Harperland:
“One of the guiding principles of the government, as described by strategist Tom Flanagan, was incrementalism. His theory was that ‘small conservative reforms are less likely to scare voters than grand conservative schemes, particularly in a country like Canada, where conservatism is not the dominant public philosophy'”
Quite a dilemma. How to do scary things against “the dominant public philosophy” without scaring voters?
