Two words that define Harper:

War psychosis.[1]

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[1] For this term, and many other insightful ideas, see the Canadian classic: Charles Norris Cochrane, Christianity and Classical Culture (New York: Oxford University Press/Galaxy, 1961), p. 473. Christianity and Classical Culture was first published in 1940. 

Stephen Harper meets Benjamin Disraeli

Here is Stephen Harper as Leader of the Opposition writing in the Montreal Gazette about a year before coming to power:

Information is the lifeblood of a democracy.  Without adequate access to key information about government policies and programs, citizens and parliamentarians cannot make informed decisions and incompetent or corrupt governments can be hidden under a cloak of secrecy.[1]

Here is Benjamin Disraeli, upcoming Conservative British Prime Minister, speaking in the House of Commons to the existing Conservative Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, March 3, 1845:

Dissolve, if you please, the Parliament whom you have betrayed, and appeal to the people whom I believe mistrust you.  For me there remains this at least, the opportunity of expressing my belief, that a Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy![2]

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[1] Lawrence Martin, Harperland: The Politics of Control (Toronto: Viking Canada, 2010), pp. 254,255.

[2] E. Royston Pike, Britain’s Prime Ministers from Walpole to Wilson (Feltham, Middelsex: Odhams Books, 1968), p. 274.