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Opportunity (finally) knocks for the Liberals
Sunday, March 25th, 2012
Mar. 13, 2012
The “disengagement” story – Mr. Rae terms it “the politics of abandonment” – is a potentially powerful description of not only the government’s style, but its overall policy agenda. Since taking power, the Harper government has arguably dismantled Ottawa’s environmental policy, energy strategy, broadcasting framework, and telecommunications agenda, to name a few. With a majority, it can now be said to be perhaps disengaging from health care and retirement security… The conservative agenda… has been a smaller Ottawa – both in the federation and in the economy.
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