The former Conservative prime minister made a rare public appearance and dished on the state of Canadian politics.
Here’s some other takeaways from the talkThere have been three Conservative leaders since Harper left politics and Harper said he always tells them that their job is “not to talk about how you would run the country.” “It is to hold the government accountable for how it is running the country and making it wear its mismanagement, incompetence and corruption,” he said.
But the corollary is that Conservative leaders typically only take office when the country is near ruin. Harper singled himself out as one of the only exceptions to this. “I was one of the rare Conservative prime ministers in 100 years who came to office when things were actually pretty good,” he said.As Conservative leader, Harper wasn’t all that unfriendly with the NDP. At times, he even sought out NDP Leader Jack Layton as a co-conspirator.
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