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Byline: DENIS SMITH CANADIAN POLITICS Professor emeritus of political science at the University of Western Ontario When MPs left Parliament Hill in December, they didn't know what the future promised. [...]

Byline: DENIS SMITH; Professor emeritus of political science and author of Rogue Tory: The Life and Legend of John G. Diefenbaker When Parliament amended the Canada Elections Act to establish [...]

Byline: Denis Smith Ottawa -- Now we must bear with Michael Ignatieff as he anguishes about getting it wrong on Iraq because he was a naive academic (The Torture Of [...]

Byline: DENIS SMITH Now the hard part begins. After a near-perfect electoral campaign, Stephen Harper will be turning his mind this morning to cabinet-making, the legislative agenda, and a timetable [...]

STEVE'S public image may be that of a quiet, reserved man -- not a ranter -- and he is comfortable with that, but you don't get to work at clubs like Manchester United if you don't have a steel backbone. He will be strong enough to ride this out, I am sure of that. He knows the territory, all managers do. He is used to it. If you get beat then you get murdered. It's as simple as that. Yes, it's worse at the moment than he will have been used to but he's the England manager and he knows it comes with the territory. No matter what people say and no matter how people think he looks and sounds, Steve will be absolutely fine. He is mentally very strong. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]