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Article: Do the math: does a united right add up?(Canada)(Conservative Party of Canada)
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- November 16, 2003
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Progressive Conservative Party leader Peter MacKay and Canadian Alliance chief Stephen Harper say their plan to "unite the right" will create a real alternative to the ruling Liberals. If the rank and file in the parties approve the merger by the next election, expected next year, will the new right be a contender?
MacKay and Harper say do the math. In 2000 the Alliance won 26 per cent of the vote led by the religiously devout Stockwell Day. The Conservatives under Joe Clark won 12 per cent. With a combined 38 per cent a united right would nearly pull even with the Liberals, who won their third straight majority government with only 41 per cent of the votes ...