The Secret Diary of Stephen Harper: The Gospel According to Torostar

Sunday, February 10, 2008

The Gospel According to Torostar

It's clear my makeover worked!

Puffin propagandist Susan Delacarte and her high school yearbook team at Number One Front Street are now featuring me as "known to be scripted, aloof and unknowable".

So instead of hating me, the Puffin prognosticators are busy setting me up as kind of a ghostly cardboard cult leader that nobody can figure out. Howard Hughes, anybody? Citizen Kane? Dumbledore? Valdemort?

Anyway, nice try, Starbots, and Keep on Puffin!

Pix:Raffi Anderian, Torstar

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)