LETTER FROM TORONTO
“THERE is a Tory tide running in Canada,” exulted Progressive-Conservative leader Robert Stanfield on the eve of the election. When the votes were counted, however, Pierre Trudeau and his Liberals had won a majority. Yet Stanfield’s appraisal was accurate: only his belief about the way the tidal power could be harnessed was wrong. For the first time in Canadian history a party lost an election by demanding more government intervention at a time when the electorate wanted less.
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