Joe-asset or liability? The Alliance wavers between finishing off the (Joe) Clark Tories or keeping them alive for one more election.
From: The Report Newsmagazine
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Date: 8/14/2000
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Author: Paul Bunner
In the hierarchy of disappearing species, creatures progress from threatened to endangered to extinct. Joe Clark's Conservative party lies somewhere in the middle. It has been extirpated in the West and its habitat is rapidly shrinking in Central Canada. Only in the Maritimes does it retain some reproductive capacity, but its gene pool is so shallow that most remaining members display the same frailties as the leader: indecisiveness, Red Toryism and wilful blindness to the ...
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