I think he's fairly much got it right, although he does rant on...

The Canadian society we have was created from the beginning by the diametrical opposite approach to American laissez faire tactics (in opening up the frontier, and everything after that). It resulted in a far more peaceful, socially progressive, and orderly society in Canada...with far better social protection for its citizenry. The neocon movement since the early 1980s has been attempting to systematically dismantle and destroy that type of society by privatizing, de-regulating, and turning over the public services to privately owned profit-driven entities (corporations) so that a few rich people can get much richer and everyone else can get poorer. To do that is to imitate the American system, which is one hell of a bad idea. The present financial crisis the USA is in right now is a direct result of the laissez faire policies of the neocon revolution launched by Ronald Reagan, and we do not need politicians in power who are loyal to those policies, in my opinion. I think Harper is a believer in the neocon approach, therefore I cannot support him. I don't object to him on a personal basis, I object to him on a policy basis.