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“When a government starts trying to cancel dissent or avoid dissent is frankly when it’s rapidly losing its moral authority to govern." -Stephen Harper, Canadian Press, April 18, 2005

This quote never gets old.

Of course, what makes this latest prorogation so insidious is that Harper is not only trying to cancel or avoid dissent, he's trying to cancel or avoid plain old democratic debate (witness the implementing of full body scanners in airports).

Has he always been this paranoid and anti-democratic and all his previous bloviating about 'accountability' was just a smoke screen, or has something changed him? This isn't a rhetorical question. I'm honestly baffled.