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Harper approved plan to leak Mulroney story

April 10, 2009 04:04:00
Tonda MacCharles
Ottawa Bureau

OTTAWA–Prime Minister Stephen Harper, from overseas, was aware of and agreed with plans to leak stories that would distance him and the current party leadership from former prime minister Brian Mulroney, the Star has learned.

http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/616708

New course for PM?
Harper begins to look like a reborn social conservative

By MICHAEL DEN TANDT

Stephen Harper must be worried. There's a big, bad recession afoot. He's lost Quebec. Ontario looks shaky. Even the West is a little restive. And the new Liberal leader hasn't even registered yet. If you're Harper, suddenly none of this looks good. He can be forgiven for being rattled

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If this is true -- if Harper's recent references to faith and morals are part of a new strategy to play the social conservative card -- then one conclusion comes into focus.

The Conservatives are more rattled by recent events than they've let on, to the point where they're contemplating abandoning eastern Canada and any hopes of a majority and retreating to their western stronghold.

http://www.ottawasun.com/Comment/2009/04/10/9073856-sun.html