[news] Stephen Harper and the Theo-Cons: The Rising Clout of Canada’s Religious Right

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

by Marci McDonald - May 29, 2008

...[T]he religious right are equally convinced that [Canadian Prime Minister Stephen] Harper is one of their own...They see him as an image-savvy evangelical who has been careful to keep his signals to them under the media radar, but they have no doubt his convictions run deep—so deep that only after he wins a majority will he dare translate the true colours of his faith into policies that could remake the fabric of the nation. If they’re right, it remains unclear whether those convictions would turn government into a kinder, gentler guarantor of social justice for all or transform the country into a stern, narrow-minded theocracy.  


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