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Author Alex Marland says the academics who wrote The Blueprint analyze Canadian conservatism with even-handedness. That’s no easy task, he says, given that academics were among many who had a visceral reaction to the politics of Stephen Harper, pictured. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ALEX MARLAND

January 10, 2018

ST. JOHN’S, N.L.—The public conversation about Canadian politics has changed a lot since the Trudeau Liberals replaced the Harper Conservatives. Reasons extend beyond the realities of a new government and the fresh faces who have an ambitious centre-left agenda. Social media continues to turn tr...

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