Pandas over People: The PM's dilemma

Harper borrows from Hobbes’s Leviathan the central premise that man is anti-social (“every man against every man”), which is why Harper would rather answer to pandas than Parliament, or the press, or premiers, or the public for that matter.[1]

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[1] Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, ed. A.P. Martinich (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 2002), p. 95. (Part 1, chapter 13). See also Quentin Skinner, Visions of Politics, Vol. 3: Hobbes and Civil Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) pp. 275, 301,322.