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Harper is a tactician; that's why he wins. We hear that all the time.
Strategy, however, isn't so much his forte. He hasn't managed to make the CPC the natural governing party of Canada - instead, it's been a constant tactical game from his team, with tactics increasing in severity and questionable nature as time goes on.
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As a result, Harper's approach has resulted in policy misfires, avoidable battles and added significantly to Canada's structural deficit.
Nothing he has done is permanent; we've already seen that a lot of his shrink-government initiatives are being ignored by lower tiers that are simply filling in the gap.
Harper set out to re-engineer Canada to fit his ideology. It hasn't happened. If anything, Harper has only served to pour gas on citizen-led collaboration and institutional disruption.
Which just goes to show you - tactics and even strategy in the absence of culture is low-hanging fruit-picking on a withering tree.
It's not about winning battles; it's about conversion.
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