How would Canada’s electoral landscape look if the right were still divided?
I still think an NDP-Liberal merger is the most promising answer to Harper’s Conservatives.
If the Alliance and the PCs were still separate
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“[W]ith a divided right the Liberals would have likely won a majority in 2004 and minorities in 2006 and 2008.
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[A]t this stage it seems easier to imagine the Conservative Party splintering again (say, if a Red Tory wins the next leadership race) than the Liberals and NDP merging. There is at least precedent for the former, and none for the latter. Divisions on the right in Alberta, for example, show how there can still be plenty of animosity between the two factions within the federal organization. There is no scope for such a disintegration in the short term, particularly under Stephen Harper. But nothing lasts forever.”