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Article: Northern light.(Conservative Ontario, Canada, Premier Mike Harris)
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- National Review
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- February 12, 1996
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Mr. Frum is a senior fellow of the Manhattan Institute and the author of Dead Right (New Republic Books).
TORONTO
IT'S a grand thing to have a parliamentary majority behind you. Not since Mrs. Thatcher's first term has any conservative leader moved quite so far, so fast as the new premier of Ontario, Mike Harris. Given the magnitude of his achievement in the seven months since his election, if Harris continues in this vein he will rank as one of the outstanding political leaders of the 1990s.
Since July, his government has announced reforms that will cut Ontario's $55-billion budget by $8 billion over the next three years. Because $9 billion of the ...