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Conservatives reject latest debate pitch from broadcasters

'If the opposition leaders want to debate the prime minister, they know where he is,' spokesman says
http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/politics/story/1.3082475

Conservatives blind to growing desire for regime change: Hébert


Most voters will construe Stephen Harper's boycott of leaders’ debates produced by the country’s main networks as hubris, writes Chantal Hébert.


MONTREAL — Every 10 years or so, Canadian voters take a broom and clean house on Parliament Hill. They often rearrange the furniture in ways unexpected by those who had grown comfortable in the back rooms of power.


Think back to 1984 and the ushering in of a Quebec/Alberta coalition crafted by Brian Mulroney’s Tories. At the time, a Conservative sweep of the Liberal fortress that Quebec had been under Pierre Trudeau was almost as unthinkable as the 2011 orange wave. Only five years before, in 1979, Quebec had so massively voted Liberal as to deprive Joe Clark of a majority.


Then, a bit less than a decade after Mulroney’s first victory, the Bloc Québécois and the Reform Party took crowbars to the house he had built, leaving the Tory party in ruins and clearing the way to a Liberal decade under Jean Chrétien.


At the time of the latter’s retirement, most Liberals expected to stay in power indefinitely under Paul Martin. They dismissed the notion that Stephen Harper could ever be prime minister or their party fall to third place behind the NDP.
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/05/22/conservatives-blind-to-growing-desire-for-regime-change-hbert.html

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