AOL: Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper won his coveted majority government in elections Monday that also marked a shattering defeat for the opposition Liberals, preliminary results showed.
Harper, who took office in 2006, has won two elections but until now had never held a majority of Parliament’s 308 seats, forcing him to rely on the opposition to pass legislation.
While Harper’s hold on the 308-member Parliament has been tenuous during his five-year tenure, he has managed to nudge an instinctively center-left country to the right. He has gradually lowered sales and corporate taxes, avoided climate change legislation, promoted Arctic sovereignty, upped military spending and extended Canada’s military mission in Afghanistan… (more)
EDITOR: Their goes the neighborhood! More seriously, the Harper administration opposes many harm reduction efforts. Fortunately, the Canadian Surpreme Court continues to declare their laws unconstitutional. The Court believes that patients are entitled to treatments proven to benefit their health.
