PM more concerned with reinforcing party’s core constituency than converting moderate majority

Whatever the labels, the writing is on Ottawa's walls: to challenge Conservative orthodoxy is to risk reprisals.

OTTAWA—Conservatives are out of their particular closet. Not since ripping into social and legal activists during a first year in power has the party so aggressively, or openly, imposed its ideology.

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