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In 2003 he merged its successor with the eastern-based, “Red Tory” Progressive Conservatives. Having long felt marginalised in federal politics, “the West is now in”, Mr Harper proclaimed in triumph in Calgary. The big cities, however, are out. The Conservatives failed to win a single seat i
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