The Secret Diary of Stephen Harper: Sorry John Tory

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Sorry John Tory

The gist of our conversation this morning on BlackBerry #4: "I see you took the loss like a man, and accepted blame, which is all well and good. You're better off without a seat in that echo chamber they call Queen's Park anyway. Want to spend the rest of your life looking across the aisle at McGuilty's dopey grin?..... You do?"

"Now apart from Rogers where you did great work, your resume may be a bit thin, what with the Kim Campbell campaign and your CFL expansion into the US, but there may be an ambassadorship we can come up with. Let me see... Azerbaijan? Belarus? Darfur? Eritrea?"

"Not interested? Well, OK, all the best. Gotta country to run. Out."

Talk Tough Like Mike

•“Look, this is America and you have to decide what kind of country you want. This is your country as much as it is mine.” - 2004
*"Look, if I lose, I'll just move back to Massachusetts." - to the Harvard Crimson newspaper - 2006
*“If you mess with me, I’ll mess with you until I’m done.”
• "You're looking at someone who turned down the chance to become Prime Minister of Canada, and I did so, in part, because I felt it would divide the country."
• “I don’t need any lessons in legitimacy from Harper.”
• “He knows where to find me.”
• "He's creating a parliamentary crisis and dividing the country."
• "It’s his budget, not mine."
• "It's up to Harper to make the right decision and up to me to decide if he made it."
• "We're putting the government on probation."
•"Mr. Harper, your time is up.”
*"This is a prime minister who a year ago was trying to make you embarrassed if you liked opera or classical music or the ballet or poetry. I mean, come on, let's get over this. You can like hockey, you can like classical music. Let's stop playing Canadian against Canadian and taste against taste."

The Susan Delacarte Stephen Harper Attack Thesaurus (Under Construction)