The cheery new leader of Canada’s Conservatives
WHEN Stephen Harper stepped down as leader of Canada’s Conservative Party after losing a national election in October 2015 it looked as if the party he had created might come apart. That 13 candidates came forward to succeed him was an indication of how many ideologies he had knit together. Among them were three anti-abortion social conservatives, a libertarian and a Trumpian populist. Any one of these might have unravelled Mr Harper’s coalition.
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