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| | Red Tory tradition ends with Joe Clark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Clark's speech was a familiar defence of the high points of the Mulroney years -- the warm relations with Washington, the daring (and divisive) constitutional initiatives, the acid rain treaty -- and also an indirect defence of his own highly partisan, almost bitter, attacks on Jean Chrétien in recent years. |
 | | There was no secret to his appeal: He was mainstream, centrist, indistinguishable from John Manley on the economy, maybe even left of Paul Martin on social policy, a member of a much-diminished tribe known as the Red Tories. |
 | | Barring some surprise, the true Red Tory tradition ends this weekend along with Joe Clark's career. |
| www.canada.com /national/features/pcconvention2003/story.html?id=623c1125-9b7f-4310-a47c-0a23d163e352 (770 words) |
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