During the election campaign it was clear that Harper and Ralph Klein are allies and it’s also clear that Harper likes what Klein has done with Alberta. It’s unclear to me how much Harper respects or likes him, but I sure hope he doesn’t at all, given this:

Klein sorry after throwing Grit booklet at page

Ralph got mad during a debate on health care and threw a book at a 17-year-old girl. She had been bringing the book to him, which he requested, from the Liberals at the meeting. He called the book garbage and threw it at her.

There’s some other tidbits in that article too. Apparently he showed up drunk at a homeless shelter one night and told the people there to go get jobs.