Canadian-politics Quotes by Lawrence Martin

“[Harper] once told a friend, "I think about strategy twenty-four hours a day," and it was only a small exaggeration.”

— Lawrence Martin

“[Stephen] Harper had said he would use all legal means, and what [John] Baird suggested was an option the prome minister was…

— Lawrence Martin

“Earlier in [2007] the [Prime Minister's Office] had also drawn criticism for trying to muzzle the judiciary. The reproach came from Antonio…

— Lawrence Martin

“The real power in Ottawa, as in Washington, is in the executive branch. At the White House, there are daily briefings for…

— Lawrence Martin

“In the run-up to the election, Stephen Harper had rolled out the rhetoric on the need for clean and transparent government, expressing…

— Lawrence Martin

“The conservatives had started bringing demagoguery to the table on the [Afghan] war issue the previous fall [fall 2006]. Whenever opposition members…

— Lawrence Martin

“Attempts to thwart or muzzle the media continued as well. At a conservative caucus meeting in Charlottetown in August 2007, journalists assembled…

— Lawrence Martin

“For [Stephen] Harper, a national daycare plan bordered on being a socialist scheme, a phrase he had once used to describe the…

— Lawrence Martin

“Bill C-9 was supposed to be a budget bill, but it came with innumerable measures that had little or nothing to do…

— Lawrence Martin

“As opposition leader, [Stephen Harper] wrote in the Montreal Gazette in the year before he came to power: 'Information is the lifeblood…

— Lawrence Martin