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Canadians, before you vote for the Progressive Conservatives please read these articles...Stephen Harper is a very scarey man, and we don't know the half of it...because we aren't being TOLD a quarter of it!!!
"The evolution of Stephen Harper and his party
Bill Doskoch, CTV.ca News
Imagine a Canadian political party that proposes radical conservative change: To stop regional development; cancel universality for social programs (including old age security); restrict immigration; and hold binding national referendums on issues such as capital punishment and abortion …
In Canada, there was such a party in our recent history -- the Reform Party. And Stephen Harper, the Conservative Party's leader, was once its policy chief.
Harper cut his political teeth in Ottawa working for a Progressive Conservative MP. But believing then-Prime Minister Brian Mulroney wasn't doing enough to move Canada in a truly conservative direction, he left the Tories.
After a chance meeting with Reform leader Preston Manning, Harper became active in his Western-based, grassroots movement. But by 1997, he left over differences with Manning.
After a break from politics, Harper returned in 2002 to head Reform's successor, the Canadian Alliance, and was instrumental in merging that party with the Progressive Conservatives.
The new Conservative Party of Canada lost the federal election in 2004 when the Liberals successfully painted Harper and his MPs as scary extremists. In response, Harper has now remade himself as a Conservative moderate. Today he's even taking advice from Mulroney, and some of the former PM's key associates have joined him on the campaign trail.
During this 2006 election campaign, Harper's Conservatives announced some major centre-right policies that appear to be quite mainstream. However, others, including the Liberal Party, warn the hard-right policies of the Reform and Canadian Alliance Parties still lie beneath the surface.
"I don't believe Stephen Harper's changed as much as the party tries to suggest he's changed," Steve Patten, a University of Alberta political scientist who's studied the Reform Party, told CTV.ca.
"He still drifts off into Reform Party territory some days, as he did when he suggested the courts may become opposition to a government he forms, like an American Republican who's always complaining of Democrats stacking the Supreme Court," Craig Oliver, CTV's chief political correspondent, adds...."
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"Belinda Stronach, a Liberal MP and cabinet minister, has issued a statement calling Stephen Harper's Conservative Party ideological, narrow and intolerant.
The statement said she left the Conservatives and joined the Liberals last year for those reasons..."
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This one's about U.S. conservative groups being asked not to say anything to the press that may hurt the Canadian Tories'image
I'm telling you people, if these guys get in....Canada as we know it is lost!
"The evolution of Stephen Harper and his party
Bill Doskoch, CTV.ca News
Imagine a Canadian political party that proposes radical conservative change: To stop regional development; cancel universality for social programs (including old age security); restrict immigration; and hold binding national referendums on issues such as capital punishment and abortion …
In Canada, there was such a party in our recent history -- the Reform Party. And Stephen Harper, the Conservative Party's leader, was once its policy chief.
Harper cut his political teeth in Ottawa working for a Progressive Conservative MP. But believing then-Prime Minister Brian Mulroney wasn't doing enough to move Canada in a truly conservative direction, he left the Tories.
After a chance meeting with Reform leader Preston Manning, Harper became active in his Western-based, grassroots movement. But by 1997, he left over differences with Manning.
After a break from politics, Harper returned in 2002 to head Reform's successor, the Canadian Alliance, and was instrumental in merging that party with the Progressive Conservatives.
The new Conservative Party of Canada lost the federal election in 2004 when the Liberals successfully painted Harper and his MPs as scary extremists. In response, Harper has now remade himself as a Conservative moderate. Today he's even taking advice from Mulroney, and some of the former PM's key associates have joined him on the campaign trail.
During this 2006 election campaign, Harper's Conservatives announced some major centre-right policies that appear to be quite mainstream. However, others, including the Liberal Party, warn the hard-right policies of the Reform and Canadian Alliance Parties still lie beneath the surface.
"I don't believe Stephen Harper's changed as much as the party tries to suggest he's changed," Steve Patten, a University of Alberta political scientist who's studied the Reform Party, told CTV.ca.
"He still drifts off into Reform Party territory some days, as he did when he suggested the courts may become opposition to a government he forms, like an American Republican who's always complaining of Democrats stacking the Supreme Court," Craig Oliver, CTV's chief political correspondent, adds...."
read entire article
"Belinda Stronach, a Liberal MP and cabinet minister, has issued a statement calling Stephen Harper's Conservative Party ideological, narrow and intolerant.
The statement said she left the Conservatives and joined the Liberals last year for those reasons..."
read this article
This one's about U.S. conservative groups being asked not to say anything to the press that may hurt the Canadian Tories'image
I'm telling you people, if these guys get in....Canada as we know it is lost!
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