Lloyd Mackay has been covering Parliament Hill for a small evangelical magazine for years. He reviews Like a Rock in his weekly Ottawa Watch for Canadian Christianity.

I have now read the book and talked to Tom Zytaruk, the author — a Trinity Western University graduate who, along with a reporter’s elegant yet understated competence, has a quiet and fairly deeply embedded Christian faith.

As a veteran reporter at Surrey Now, a CanWest community newspaper, he covered Cadman from the time the late MP’s son, Jesse, was knifed to death at a bus stop a couple of miles from his home. He followed Chuck’s transition from a former rocker with a responsible and technically-sophisticated day job at the Insurance Corporation of BC, into a Reform/Alliance/Conservative/Independent member for the Surrey North riding.

Because of his own faith perceptions, I believe, Zytaruk was able to catch the interesting relationship between the Cadmans and their neighbour-pastor Dan Nicholson.

Chuck did not claim to be religious, but he was willing to listen to Dan. One of the last stories in Like a Rock tells of Dan visiting Chuck, at his request, and cautiously but pastorally asking him if there was any reassurance he could offer him about spiritual matters — like forgiveness.

Chuck apparently looked to Dan quizzically and asked him if he thought God would forgive him for voting with the Liberals that fateful May 19, 2005.

Readers of this magazine would be mostly Conservative whether by tradition or belief.  In typical evangelical fashion I think Canadian Christianity readers seek a happy ending and they get it in this review. 
Mackay has written an unauthorized biography on Stephen Harper.
I don’t think Zytaruk, a medium market reporter, anticipated the furor his book would unleash.