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Originally Posted by Coelah
Harper? No,I agree. Stockell Day? Yup.
How many in the party share Day's views? How much influence do they wield? How much pressure will they be able to exert on Harper to follow their agenda? Why do they even have a place in the party if it is moderate.
Those are questions that Harper isn't answering and the candidates that share those views are being muzzled during the campaign. I have to ask why.
If their views are so opposed to the moderate party Harper wishes to lead that they aren't allowed to express them, why are they allowed to run as conservatives?
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The most he'll do is to tell those extremists to shut-up, and he has. But they will still be elected and they will still be there. Luckily the country is run by the PM and Cabinet and Harper is smarter than to let those views influence his politics even if he agrees in some fashion. They don't need to appeal only to the partisan right anymore.