Party of One: Stephen Harper and his Radical Makeover of Canada Audiobook (Free)

A timely indictment of the prime minister determined to remake Canada.

In Party of 1, Investigative journalist Michael Harris provides us an intimate take a look at Stephen Harper, and draws a portrait of a Primary Minister whose policies and instincts, Harris believes, certainly are a very clear and present danger to Canada’s democracy. Fueled from the election triumph of May 2011, unchecked with the opposition, the staggering gap between Stephen Harper’s stated political concepts and his methods starkly travel Harris’ about Party of 1: Stephen Harper and his Radical Makeover of Canada quarrels home.

Harper, an recognized master at managing information is normally, Harris argues, profoundly anti-democratic. The Harper Authorities’s sins include keeping details from Canadians and an inclination to invent them (as it did in the F-35 debacle). Since arriving at power, Harper offers made battle on every independent source of details in Canada. Harris recounts Stephen Harper’s well-defined and developing list of opponents, whose perspectives are unwelcome, and whose voices are to be suppressed: scientists, diplomats, union associates, environmentalists, First Nations peoples, and journalists.

Counter to the backdrop of a Conservative dedication to transparency and accountability, Harris exposes a routine of ultra-secrecy, non-compliance, and dismissiveness. With this Conservative bulk in Parliament, the law is easy: what one guy, Stephen Harper, says, will go.