[news] Revenge of the Big Suburbs

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

Suburban support fuelled the growth of Mario Dumont's ADQ party in this year's Quebec provincial election. The suburbs also provided the core of Mike Harris's support during the conservative revolution that swept Ontario in the 1990s. Federally...Stephen Harper made waves in 2006 when he won a minority government without a single seat in the urban cores of Canada's three largest cities...The **common thread** among **Dumont**, **Harris** and **Harper** is that they're all [Neo-] **Conservatives**...[S]uburbanites are more likely to vote conservative than are their urban neighbours. And as the suburbs grow, so too will the conservative clout of their residents.

  


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