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Conservative Convention: Well, it really is Stephen Harper’s party

Kady fills us in on why attending the Conservative convention in Winnipeg would have been a stunning waste of time. Fun fact: 21 years ago, Stephen Harper attended the founding Reform Party convention in…Winnipeg, because he’d grown tired of an autocratic ruling Conservative elite that was disdainful and ashamed of its base.

Some time later, he decided he wanted one of those for himself.

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