Unprecedented market plunge of more than 41% occurs on Harper's watch. Incredulously, Stephen Harper reacts to this historic global crisis by saying it's a terrific buying opportunity!

Even as Mr. Harper hungrily contemplates all the fantastic deep discount stock buying opportunities being presented, a historic market crash affecting Canada's retirees, want-to-be retirees, unions (the largest investment fund in Canada is the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan) and employers is wiping out trillions of dollars of value.

This is Stephen Harper's idea of the land is strong:

Stick with me over the next few articles as we look at politics from the perspective of financial markets and see how the Harper government's policies impact markets, and regular folk- like you and me-whether we have direct investments or not.