How MacKay helped Harper take over Progressive Conservative Party in 2003

Peter MacKay's betrayal of his previous solemn promises can fairly be said to have been instrumental in Stephen Harper's driver to unite the right by merging the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative parties in 2003.

As soon as Prime Minister Stephen Harper led the Conservative Party to a majority on May 2, he was widely hailed as the architect not just of that victory but also of the "unite the right" movement. A key part of the latter was the merger of the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Part...

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