“Yann Martel marked Stephen Harper’s 48th birthday yesterday by giving him a present, and a letter wishing him Happy Birthday. He knows the Prime Minister may not open them. Yesterday, the Booker Prize-winning author, who may fast be becoming Stephen Harper’s most annoying pest, dropped off the second volume in his supply-the-PM-with-good reading campaign – which more honestly should be described as a guerrilla campaign to affirm the importance of the arts and literature in the national discourse.”