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| | Canada's Official Opposition to found new right-wing party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) |
 | | This initiative, which amounts to an admission that Reform as presently constituted has little likelihood of coming to power, is born of Reformers' frustration at the Liberals' appropriation of much of their right-wing economic agenda, on the one hand, and the strong popular opposition to Reform's social conservatism and Anglo-chauvinism, on the other. |
 | | Canada's ruling party from 1984 to 1993, the Tories were almost obliterated in the 1993 election, winning just 2 of the then 295 House of Commons seats. |
 | | Canada's oldest political party the Tories are, by contrast, the quintessential establishment party, the party most closely identified with the interests of the Bay Street banking and financial houses. |
| www.wsws.org /articles/1999/mar1999/can1-m03.shtml (1445 words) |
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