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Old 08-19-2016, 09:24 AM   #47
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Actually, he's not wrong. Historically, new immigrants to Canada gravitate to the Liberal party. Source, I remember this from a Canadian Political Behavior class I took and this article shows it from the last election:

http://globalnews.ca/news/2291301/im...ction-results/
This was one of Harper's main strategies in the lead up to his first win. They looked at the Liberal's grabbing immigrant votes and felt like most immigrants were actually more conservative (socially and fiscally) but that immigrants identified with the party and leader that were in power when they were brought in.
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