POL 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Fiscal Conservatism, Preston Manning, Direct Democracy
18 Jan 2017
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Conservativism of macdonald is very different from most recent harper. This is interesting because the name is kind of contradictory. However it expressed the notion that the conservative party had progressive qualities. Conservative in that it was slightly deterred from making radical changes but It was often leadership that shaped party in this earlier time. Joe clark was a nice man with very suspect kind of political approach, he lasted only 9 months: years in opposition (1960-1984, except for th joe clark government in. Fiscally conservative but socially progressive was their kind of slogan around this time: -the mulroney years. Yielded the largest majority around that time. Conservatives did very well in ontario in these years as well. Mulroney years you had a soft quebec nationalists that voted. Mulroney was very unpopular when he left. He did the meech lake accord, free trade agreement, and the. Many liberals and large portions of populations did not like these things.
