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The great right north? Conservatives may finally be getting their act together in Canada.(CANADA)

National Review

| April 11, 2005 | O'Sullivan, John | COPYRIGHT 2005 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

If you had swallowed the general view of the Canadian news media, the national convention of the (relatively) new Canadian Conservative Party in Montreal was likely to be a sad and solemn wake. Unfortunately, nobody told the corpse, who got up and danced a decorous Canadian reel. About 2,900 Tories had gathered in Montreal--a pretty large gathering by Canadian standards and, as the Tories kept emphasizing, somewhat larger than the national convention of the ruling Liberals two weeks previously. Despite the urgings of the media that they should split back into the two hostile parties whose merger had created the CCP less than two years ago, they showed a firm determination ...

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