You are fooling yourself if you think that the majority of the CPC doesd not hold the same convictions as the majority of the GOP. Harper himself wanted Canada to be more right wing than the USA, and wanted us to eliminate socialized medicine. He has muzzled his caucas since day one, so you only rarely see them make the same dumb comments as their counterparts in the US. (I am not saying only conservatives make dumb comments)
The only reason the CPC does not have the same policies as the GOP, is that their support would go down, and the rest of the country would not tolerate them as the leaders. The merger with the PC party was just a take over, they said that they would only focus on certain non-socially conservative priorities, but Joe Clark knew what that really meant.
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