1. Riffing off something @theturner tweeted recently, we need to gauge Mike Harris's continuing impact on Canadian politics.
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2. Harris's tenure as Ontario premier ended a long time ago, but his fingerprints can still be seen in both Stephen Harper and Rob Ford.
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3. Harper is better seen as the heir to Harris rather than the progeny of Preston Manning. Harper is Harris gone Federal.
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4. And Rob Ford is Harper re-purposed for municipal politics. Ford's dad was backbencher in Harris gov't.
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5. What is Harris's continuing influence? I'd say a certain form of mean populism, shaped by an anti-intellectual, anti-institutional bias
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6. The older Canadian right-wing populism wasn't so much anti-institutional as counter-institutional: wanted to created new institutions.
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7. Preston Manning was perhaps a transitional figure: in some ways he prefigured Harper/Ford but he still had ties to older populism.
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8. Thing that unites Harris/Harper/Ford is an active distrust of the agencies of government & expert advice on policy.
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9. Garry Wills description of governing by counterinsurgency (applied to Nixon) is perhaps relevant.
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10. Post-Harris, Post-Harper, Post-Ford: how to rebuild a sense of the institution-building as a necessary part of governance.
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11. For a good critique of my Harris/Harper thesis, go to @ephraim_quin's twitter feed.
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