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

In Party of 1, Investigative journalist Michael Harris gives us a romantic take a look at Stephen Harper, and draws a portrait of the Prime Minister whose policies and instincts, Harris believes, certainly are a apparent and present danger to Canada’s democracy. Fueled from the election victory of May 2011, unchecked with the opposition, the staggering distance between Stephen Harper’s mentioned political principles and his procedures starkly drive Harris’ about Party of 1: Stephen Harper and his Radical Makeover of Canada arguments home.

Harper, an recognized master at controlling information can be, Harris argues, profoundly anti-democratic. The Harper Authorities’s sins include keeping information from Canadians and an inclination to invent them (since it did in the F-35 debacle). Since arriving at power, Harper offers made war on every 3rd party source of details in Canada. Harris recounts Stephen Harper’s well-defined and growing list of foes, whose perspectives are unwelcome, and whose voices should be suppressed: scientists, diplomats, union users, environmentalists, First Nations peoples, and journalists.

Counter to the setting of a Conservative commitment to transparency and accountability, Harris exposes a program of ultra-secrecy, noncompliance, and dismissiveness. With this Conservative bulk in Parliament, regulations is simple: what one man, Stephen Harper, says, will go.