The Conservative campaign must be in trouble. The Party has decided to resurrect their old, retired leader Stephen Harper to become the new voice and face of their media campaign. Poor Pierre Poilievre was even absent from the last few commercials, on the bench for a bit while Harper and two colonial golfers filled in for him.

The question is “Why would you bring back the most reviled leader in current Canadian history to lead you to victory in this 2025 election?”

Here are quotes from John Ibbitson who was Harper’s sympathetic biographer:

“There has never been a Prime Minister as utterly contemptuous of people outside his voting coalition as Stephen Harper.”

“Harper had so wanted to destroy the Liberal Party, to reshape Canadian politics along American or British or Australian lines, with a dominant party of the centre right.”

“Harper paid a political price for the robocalls affair, as he deserved to. His own secretive, suspicious nature and his relentless determination to do everything within the legal limit to discredit and defeat his opponents created the win-at-all-costs culture.”

“No prime minister in history and no political party have been loathed as intensely as Stephen Harper and the Conservative party.”

And the legacy continues … like father, like son

The way I see it.