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Originally Posted by fenwick16
So you are right, only provincial governments go by the Progressive Conservative name (but is there really much difference between the federal Conservative Party and Progressive Conservatives of old?).
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Very much so. Canada's current federal government is arguably more conservative than the current American government for the first time since I was born. Harper's government tends to focus on the economy at the exclusion of all other considerations, and had displayed a near-totalitarian distain for the democratic process. Also, the current incarnation of the federal Conservative actually has more of its roots in the old Reform and Alliance parties than the PCs. MacKay is one of the only remaining PCs that I can think of.
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