Posted on 12/06/2003 4:59:01 PM PST by MegaSilver
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:45:06 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Canada's two largest conservative parties have agreed to merge as a way to halt the vote-splitting that has helped deny them power in Ottawa for a decade.
Members of the Progressive Conservative Party voted 90 percent in favor of the merger with the larger Canadian Alliance on Saturday, a day after the Alliance backed the move by 96 percent.
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The Alliance , even in the absence of the PCP , would never achieve enough popularity east of the Ontario /Manitoba border to win . But combined , in the last election , Alliance and PCP votes were greater than the wining Liberal vote in something like 30 seats in Ontario alone. Thirty seats that should have had a Conservative MP . But a vote for the PCP does not mean a vote for the Alliance . Red Tories will be driven out , and some radical right Alliance will be left in the dust .
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