Inside Politics I

Conservatives’ original playbook had no sharp end-of-campaign economic and electoral downturn script ready

Over the critical period of the campaign when Harper was cranking up his rhetoric on youth crime and on his defence of his culture cuts almost two weeks ago, the Bloc Québécois was basically given a free ride to tear fresh strips off the Conservatives on

There is an ugly rumour spreading like brush fire among the Conservative ground troops in Quebec during the countdown leading up to this week's vote and it goes like this: to avoid securing a government that is overly beholden to Quebecers for its majority on Tuesday, Stephen Harper's brain trust...

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