Are we on the cusp of a dark decade for progressives and a golden age for conservatives?

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Former prime minister Stephen Harper, Ontario PC leader Doug Ford, Alberta United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney, Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and Hill Times file photographs

Opinion

BY ANDREW CARDOZO

May 21, 2018

OTTAWA—This could be the beginning of the return to a dark decade for progressives across Canada. Suddenly, it looks like the conservative, and even neo-conservative and populist arguments are winning out. At the end of the 2015 federal election, prime minister Stephen Harper held two rallies wit...

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