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Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

March 28, 2018

OTTAWA—Many years ago, I was speaking to a friend who, as a longtime Progressive Conservative, was in the dumps. Joe Clark had been defeated by Pierre Elliott Trudeau in the 1980 election, and the Tories appeared to face a bleak future. Neither of us foresaw Brian Mulroney’s overwhelming victory...

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