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delrem

(9,688 posts)
9. Yes, Harper is a fundamentalist dick.
Sun May 31, 2015, 05:04 PM
May 2015

I think he'll get the boot. I'm quite confident about that, tho' I've been wrong before....
True, the conservative/reform faction are trying to sell us on war, on being a sidekick for *any* war that the US wants, but our history of independence is too deep, I think, to be forgotten so quickly and easily.

Even Alberta showed weakness in the conservative/reform front.

I like that there's 3 viable federal parties with cross-canada support. I think if it were a 2 party system like in the US the situation for the left would quickly become virtually impossible, like in the US. Having a left/labor party in Canada means that the right wing can't co-opt all the political language, like getting away with calling a ringer-leader like Ignatieff "liberal" and "progressive" or whatever because there's nothing to compare him with and "he's not conservative/reform".

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