text: Ray Novak:  Steve Harper’s Closet Confidant
  
  He used to live above Canada’s ex Conservative Prime Minister Steve Harper’s garage.  Now he’s the second most powerful man in Ottawa.
  
  “Ray is effectively the Prime Minister’s closest confidant,” enthuses one government official. “Not only as a member of his staff, but as a personal and intimate member of the Prime Minister’s life.”
  
  http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/07/20/who-knows-what-harper-is-really-thinking-ray-novak/
  
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