“But the Progressive Conservative is very definitely liberal Republican. These are people who are moderately conservative on economic matters, and in the past have been moderately liberal, even sometimes quite liberal on social policy matters.”

—  Stephen Harper

1990s, Speech to the Council for National Policy (1997)

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