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Needle of public opinion barely budged in 2007 for Harper’s Conservatives

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has demonstrated that he can run a minority Parliament as if he held a majority, but the polls are still silent on whether he can secure a majority mandate on the basis of minority views on many of the defining issues of the

Had it not been for the pesky ghost of Brian Mulroney, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's minority government would have enjoyed a charmed life this fall. Its second Speech from the Throne and a mini-budget whizzed through the House of Commons. In spite of that, neither gave the Conservatives the de...

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