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Lets also not forget Joe Clark was a minority leader when he was PM, was buoyed by the West, and only won because of Liberal discontent. He also oversaw the death of the PC Party, who failed to crack Ontario and Quebec with much force, with 20 and 12 seats under his watch. It could be said that he failed even moreso than Harper, Day and Manning did to lure Ontario. One can guess as to why, but with Clark considered to be the winner of the 2000 debate, it surely wasn't the PC policy people weren't voting for.
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How many more seats would a Joe Clark-led PC Party have won if the Alliance wasn't dominant in the West and there wasn't vote-splitting on the right in the East? His party lost a lot of votes because people who wanted the Liberals out thought the best way to achieve that was to support the Alliance.