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Originally Posted by Ford Prefect
I don't follow your logic. The original statement was that outside of Alberta the Liberals are a national party. My math shows that to be false. They have no strong base of support anywhere outside of Toronto. How can a so-called national party truly call itself a national party when it has no base of support outside of one regional metro area?
I don't get the Alberta analogy. Alberta provincial politics are totally screwed up too, that I will agree with, but I don't see where the analogy fits. It's a different situation. For one thing neither the Liberals or any party other than the PCs have any kind of power base in Alberta. So including or excluding regional results doesn't change anything. And for the analogy to hold, someone would have to be making the claim that outside of Edmonton, Calgary and Lethbridge, the Liberals are a provincial party. Then the analogy would work. But I don't think anyone would ever make that claim about the provincial Liberals.
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Sorry, just got busy.
As has been said...you can't take TO from Canada just as you can't take EDM/CAl/Leth from Ab. Kind of a hamfisted way to make a point.
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