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Old 09-24-2024, 10:09 AM   #14157
Slava
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Originally Posted by Cowboy89 View Post
This feels a lot like the 1984 election where Mulroney won in a landslide. 1988 was a much tighter election where the NDP at one point actually led in the polls going into it. The PCs won another majority in 1988 but much diminished and then were wiped out almost entirely in the 1993 election.
Well, 1988 was free-trade, and then 1993 was basically the GST. If you recall, Mulroney stacked the Senate to get the GST through and it was loathed by Canadians. There were other issues, but those were the big ones for those elections.
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