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Topic: Big Westerners, Little Westerners
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sgm
rabble-rouser
Babbler # 5468
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posted 07 July 2004 04:40 AM
Given Ted Morton's piece in the Globe a couple of days ago, I took this essay from Manning as being, in one sense, aimed at one of Morton's target audiences--those Western Conservative voters angry at Ontario for not throwing out the Liberals. I'm not sure he meant it as a swipe at Harper.If, in another sense, the target audience is Ontarians--and perhaps others--angry at the Liberals, but still not ready to throw them out in favour of Harper (remember the Globe's endorsement of the Liberals), Mannning's piece might be aimed at focusing the attention of those voters on what good could come to Ontario and other parts of the country--on energy, on health, etc.--from a decentralizing Conservative government. (Not like that nasty Lib-NDP coalition he mentions.) I was a bit surprised Manning didn't explicitly mention the so-con issues that probably cost Harper some support in Ontario this time out. The closest he seemed to come to mentioning them was this: quote:
Besides, the political expression of Western concerns and aspirations is making progress in numbers, in diversity, and in accommodating itself to the values and needs of other parts of the country.
From: I have welcomed the dawn from the fields of Saskatchewan | Registered: Apr 2004
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