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• Two Very Different Two Very Different Leaders

With the Liberals almost immediately pledging to support the government's budget, the PM has not felt a great need to take his case to the public. Since the Jan. 27 budget was tabled, Harper has made but a handful of photo-op type appearances, at arenas and construction sites, to highlight the budget's infrastructure spending provisions. [...] he has more political capital to be able to sell a stimulus package; Harper embarrassed himself by pushing for Parliament's suspension and backtracking on his early economic forecasts.

..."Hi, everybody," he smiles in a podcast that popped up on another of my e-mails: "I wanted... dollars are going because this is your democracy. Change never begins from the top down, it begins ...

• Brandon Sun, The
• September 04, 2009