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Jack Layton: Captain of the team to re-elect Stephen Harper

Posted on October 09, 2008

If Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper is re-elected next week as Canadian prime minister, he will owe the biggest vote of gratitude to the New Democratic Party and its leader Jack Layton.There has been comment enough about the lack-luster performance of Harper's most dangerous opponent, Liberal leader Stephane Dion, but the Liberals aren't losing this election because Dion lacks charisma. The Liberals are losing because the NDP has pushed tax-averse voters into Stephen Harper's lap.The proof of this clumsy and wrong-headed maneuver can be gleaned from the rolling public opinion polls tha...

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