Has he gone too far this time?

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has shown many times over that he has little regard for democracy. I mean, how did we learn to spell the word "prorogue"?

The long record is too wearisome to recount, but the ominous new attack on opponents of the Northern Gateway pipeline has opened a front in his battle against civil society that makes you wonder. Now that we're watching the 1 per cent more closely, will the times still be on Harper's side?