Ebook: Rebel to realist: how politics changed Stephen Harper and how he is changing Canada

Stephen Harper began as a conservative renegade with explicit principles advocating a fiscal and democratic revolution. But over time, he appeared to bend those principles to the demands of political power. Even so, he deftly - perhaps permanently - stamped his brand of conservatism on the country. Postmedia News parliamentary bureau chief Mark Kennedy examines how - 20 years after Harper was first elected to Parliament, and 10 years after he took the leadership of his party - the once-impatient revolutionary has changed, and how Canada has changed with him.