Brother Jonathan
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« on: August 02, 2019, 05:28:31 PM » |
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I can see the PCs holding on better in Quebec and Atlantic Canada under Charest, but they would still hemorrhage votes and seats out west. They would probably be either the fourth or third party, and Reform would probably have formed the official opposition, which I think would have bolstered them as a party and thus hurth the PCs more in the long run as the center-right voters started to move towards the largest center-right party. So maybe he extends the party's life, but I think the death of the Progressive Conservative party was inevitable when their coalition broke down during the late Mulroney years. Even if Charest could save more of Quebec and Atlantic Canada, he would have been unable to bring the west back in and would just split the vote in Ontario with the Reform party, which is what happened in the end anyway.
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