I've been involved in politics long enough to have come to the conclusion that it is systemically pathological in the same way that many people now accept that the big corporations are pathological.

The trouble with politics is that being based on power relationships, it attracts and promotes people who have a pathological need for power over others and thus who are psychopaths in the strict definition of the term.

Dr.

Cheerful and ebullient, federal leader Jim Harris appears to be propelling the Green Party of Canada towards national electoral success.