Mr. Trudeau [Mr.
Harper] has consistently used the politics of confrontation and contempt against
anybody who opposed him and that has done great harm to this country in the
last decade. It has been repugnant to
hear Mr. Trudeau [Mr. Harper] to treat such men as Mr. Douglas and Mr.
Stanfield and Mr. Ryan with shallow contempt over the years. One of the difficult truths about politics is
that one cannot fight such means by employing the same means. Mr. Clark was surely right not to respond
when Mr. Trudeau [Mr. Harper] tried to talk him down contemptuously. …
Source: George
Grant to Richard Doyle, Editor of the Globe
and Mail, 15 May 1979 in George Grant, Selected
Letters, ed. William Christian (Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
1996), pp.304,305. Grant’s original comments
pertain to the federal election of 22 May 1979.
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