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Article: Unsettling Canada.(Opinion)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- October 1, 2004
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For Canada's social conservatives, the recent federal election offered cause for encouragement, cause for anxiety, and cause for alarm. That one election could produce such unsettled and unsettling results is evidence of what a tumultuous year it has been in Canadian politics.
Since 1993, the Liberal Party of Canada has dominated the federal scene, winning large majority governments in 1993, 1997, and 2000. Liberal dominance under Prime Minister Jean Chr6tien was owing to several factors: Chr6tien's personal popularity, a prosperous economy, record budgetary surpluses, and an opposition that was fractured between two political parties on the center-right--the ...