20 years after his first election win, Stephen Harper steps back into spotlight

CBC: Widely regarded as the godfather of the modern Canadian right-wing movement, Harper accomplished something no other federal Conservative leader has done in the last 30-plus years: he won elections.

He ended more than a decade of Liberal rule and cobbled together a coalition of prairie populists, eastern business interests, suburbanites, social conservatives and Quebec nationalists that delivered Conservative governments in 2006, 2008 and a strong majority in 2011….