[news] Harper's Hidden Agenda

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

(Stephen) Harper, the ideologue of today, would have been unthinkable as leader as recently as 1983, when Brian Mulroney won the Progressive Conservative leadership. Mulroney’s two most right-wing opponents, John Gamble and Peter Pocklington (a long-time Fraser Institute benefactor and trustee), espoused policies not very different than Harper’s. But together they received only a handful of delegate votes. In 1983, Harper wouldn’t have stood a chance. In 2003, he won handily.

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