Bob Plamondon. Full Circle: Death and Resurrection In Canadian Conservative Politics
FOREWORD
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CHAPTER 1. POINT OF NO RETURN
CHAPTER 2. CONSERVATIVE COALITIONS
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD
SIR ROBERT BORDEN
RICHARD BENNETT
PROGRESSIVE PARTY
JOHN DIEFENBAKER
BRIAN MULRONEY
CHAPTER 3. LIFE BEFORE NATIONAL POLITICS
PRESTON MANNING
STEPHEN HARPER
PETER MACK AY
CHAPTER 4. MULRONEY LEADS CANADA, MANNING LEADS WESTERN DISCONTENT
CHAPTER 5. PC DEMISE, REFORM RISE
CHAPTER 6. THE THIRTY-FIFTH PARLIAMENT
CHAPTER 7. CHRÉTIEN IN A NO-CONTEST
CHAPTER 8. MACKAY IN OTTAWA, HARPER AT THE NCC
CHAPTER 9. TO THE DEATH, 1997–2003
CHAPTER 10. HARPER TAKES THE ALLIANCE
CHAPTER 11. MACKAY TAKES THE PCS
CHAPTER 12. THE MERGER
CHAPTER 13. RATIFICATION
CHAPTER 14. FULL CIRCLE, ACT I
CHAPTER 15. FULL CIRCLE, ACT II
CHAPTER 16. NEVER AGAIN
APPENDIX A. TIMELINE OF KEY EVENTS
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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BY LAWRENCE MARTIN
Canadian conservatives have had a turbulent, luckless and losing history woven in cycles of despair. When the party occasionally did triumph in elections, the prize was quickly squandered. R.B. Bennett was derailed by the biggest depression the country ever saw. John Diefenbaker’s mismanagement of a golden opportunity was catastrophic. Joe Clark, unbelievably, dismantled his minority government in nine months. The party was jinxed. A death wish seemed to hover it. If further proof was needed, it came later in the 1980s. Brian Mulroney had seemingly put an end to the long run of grief. He’d won a record-shattering majority in 1984 and seemed well on his way to another robust victory. He had built a coalition of the West and Quebec. Not since John A. Macdonald had the party been so comfortably situated in power.
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Mulroney then turned his attention to party finances. “He didn’t want to go to the people of Canada to elect his party and him as prime minister if we didn’t have our own books balanced and if we didn’t have a frugal mindset,” said Angus. “We had to be able to present a responsible financial position, which we did.”
Mulroney recognized that his coalition had four distinct blocks. While he would deliver the Quebec contingent, he would rely upon deep conservative Atlantic roots, the free enterprise crowd from the West, and the “big blue machine” from Ontario. He counted on the provincial party machines to deliver the conservative vote in the regions of the country in which he was least familiar. “There were a lot of Tory Premiers to work with,” said Angus. “Premier Lougheed (from Alberta) was always supportive behind the scenes. But Quebec was the key to this thing. The Créditistes were no longer active, and Brian had a tremendous network in Quebec with an organization on the ground. We had organizers from the Quebec Liberal Party and the Parti Québécois. Brian seemed to know everybody.”
