C’est important de le savoir car, selon un conservateur québécois de longue date, Peter White, un proche de Brian Mulroney, les politiques de Stephen Harper envers le Québec sont tellement mauvaises que les Québécois croient qu’il est un consommateur de nourrissons:
“His image here is the pits. I’ve had francophones say to me publicly that they think he’s got ears and a tail, and he eats babies. And these are conservatives. They can’t understand why Harper doesn’t fix his image. Everyone knows he doesn’t eat babies, but he does everything he can to make people think he does.”