Michael Den Tandt: Harper discovers we have more power than we know
November 16, 2011
The following is excerpted from the 16 November 2011 edition of The Montreal Gazette.
It was in late March of 2003, weeks after the U.S. military invaded Iraq, that then-U.S. ambassador Paul Cellucci delivered the bombshell: "There may be short-term strains here," he told an aghast bluechip Canadian business audience. "You'll have to wait and see."
Canada's chattering classes - numbering among them one Stephen Harper, then head of the Canadian Alliance - uttered a collective "Aha!" Cellucci's "short-term strains" would be the long-proffered hickory switch, with which a recalcitrant Canada would be beaten for its refusal to take part in the invasion...
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