Reclaiming much of his father’s hold on Quebec must have been one of the sweetest aspects of election night for Justin Trudeau. When the NDP started to crumble in Quebec, partly because of Harper’s peddling the spurious issue of the single infamous niqab, the government was doomed, and Harper walked resignedly to the electoral gallows in the last three weeks of the campaign. Far from preserving conservatism, he is bequeathing a party that knows it must capture more of the centre to return to government, but he deserves the respect due to the true believer, even though he took his party and his ideology down with him.
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