Stephen Harper is turning out to be

an unpredictable, yet decisive, prime minister only two weeks into the job. He makes decisions quickly; they just aren't always the decisions everyone expects.

It is a bit of a shock to the system -- that is, to the public service, the media and the opposition parties -- to have a leader who answers, rather than avoids, direct questions, whose priorities have a shelf-life longer than one week and who knows where he is going. In other words, to have actual leadership.

From Susan Riley, The Ottawa Citizen, February 24, 2006 -- via RC and thanks.