There have been a few small steps,-restoring funding to some NGOs for example and a less belligerent tone.
Mean time  Harper is closer than ever to Sheldon Adelson , one of the chief sources of dark money which has so distorted the US political scene for the last few years. 

But he has had the most impact in Israel where  he is a full on supporter Netanyahu and the Likud Party. The floods of money from the US has overwhelmed the political landscape in Israel and it has grown increasingly right wing and intransigent.

It is Adelson who is Harper's mentor and it was Adelson that Harper went off to meet in Los Vegas in his low key to the point of being furtive trips to Las Vegas.

The government has edged ever so slowly to a more balanced position but  who knows how far down thee road H arper would have dragged us into the embrace of Likud/Adelson/ Netanyahu?