One point you fastened onto there was that there is a generation of politicians, of which Mr. Harper is definitely a part, that just can't conceive, perhaps--it's just not in their DNA--of minority government as a state of normalcy and not an aberration that we will shortly be getting out of. It might be a natural reflex--one which, I hasten to add, should be counteracted for the greater good--to say, “How can I make this thing function as if it were a majority?”
That's problematic, for the reasons I indicated in my letter, which I won't get back into, but also because what the Canadian population has asked for through its vote is not a minority that acts as if it were a majority. It wants, and robustly, because we're now three elections into this minority part of our history, a sort of new normal, a new way of behaving in Parliament.
You can't get people's attention if you're not a bit hard-hitting for reasons that....