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Originally Posted by moon
I think a problem with a guy like Kent doing it is no matter what it will be tough to shake the "Liberal" name from anything he does.
Nenshi was able to do it because he had no well-known ties to anyone and was looked at as a "breath of fresh air"/"new guy".
The problem with the merger in my view is that as people have mentioned the Liberals are not that close to the NDP and much closer to the Redford PC's. If anything a reform/PC merger into the Conservatives seems like a much better idea for the "lefties" that are actually "Centrists" in the province to go against the WR who now represent the right. Now there is no incentive for the PC's to do this with the poor showing of the WR in the last election but if next time the WR gets its stuff together and poses a threat to the PC's perhaps we see an unofficial merger in which the Liberals/PC's go for a combined effort in the cities to fight the rural influence of the WR party.
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You're not wrong, but one problem with this idea is that the merged entity would bear the Orwellian moniker "the liberal progressive conservative party."