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		<title>Ignatieff Pulling Liberals Down</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/02/23/ignatieff-pulling-liberals-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.policycentre.ca/?p=1293</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I predicted that Harper would suffer little lasting damage from the prorogation debacle.  Many challenged this conclusion, pointing to the drop in Conservative support in the immediate aftermath.
I was not claiming that there would be no short term damage.  It was a dumb move that caused many soft voters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save Us From the Ideologues</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/01/06/save-us-from-the-ideologues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ideologues have their place.  Mostly it is in irrelevant and out of the way places like think tanks and obscure academic departments.  There they are largely harmless as they spin us with their imaginary worlds  and irrelevant schemes.  However, they can become a problem if they are able to occupy important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harper Has Hardly Mounted an Attack on Democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/01/05/1218/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is something puzzlingly about some of the more extreme reactions to the prorogation of Parliament by Prime Minister Harper.  Not surprisingly, those who have a stake in the political dogfights in Ottawa have been highly critical.  The leaders of the opposition parties have understandably objected to the removal of the Parliamentary stage, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Sorry Chantal Hebert, You Don&#8217;t Understand Political Parties</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/12/31/1201/</link>
		<comments>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/12/31/1201/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The usually insightful Chantal Hebert of the CBC political panel and the Toronto Sun writes on December 31 that the Liberals will never again govern until they understand that in today&#8217;s political alignments the NDP makes a Liberal majority impossible.  The road to power for the Liberals goes through the offices of the NDP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PMO Has a Point About Ignatieff</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/12/30/pmo-has-a-point/</link>
		<comments>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/12/30/pmo-has-a-point/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.policycentre.ca/?p=1185</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A PMO e-mail claims that Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff flubbed it in a recent interview when asked why he wants to be Prime Minister.  The PMO e-mail says “It was a lob question. Emmanuelle Latraverse (a Radio-Canada television journalist) asked Michael Ignatieff why he wants to be Prime Minister. An easy question for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harper&#8217;s  Copenhagen</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/12/29/harper-in-copenhagen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/12/29/harper-in-copenhagen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.policycentre.ca/?p=1169</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Much has been said about Canada&#8217;s performance at Copenhagen, much of it negative.  Many are disappointed that Canada did not take a stronger stand and provide greater leadership.  Harper says it was a success and that the world followed Canada&#8217;s lead.  However the government&#8217;s response has been seemingly halfhearted, seeming to confirm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harper and Mackay Need to Show Humility</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/26/1156/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The blow-up in Parliament over the testimony of a former Canadian intelligence agent in Afghanistan is fraught with errors and missed opportunities.  The agent, Richard Colvin, testified that from May 2006 through to the end of 2007 he frequently informed officials and politicians that Taliban prisoners transferred by Canadian forces to Afghani jails were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>West Must Address Crisis Group Report on Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/26/crisis-group-recommendations-need-attention/</link>
		<comments>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/26/crisis-group-recommendations-need-attention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A just released report from the excellent International Crisis Group (ICC) looks at the disastrous Afghanistan Presidential election and concludes that the election &#8220;delivered a critical blow to the legitimacy of both the government and the international community&#8221;.  The ICC says: 
“Karzai’s retaining power under these circumstances has bolstered the impression that the international [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Good Day to Celebrate Science</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/24/a-good-ay/</link>
		<comments>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/24/a-good-ay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.policycentre.ca/?p=1148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, November 24, 2009 marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin.  This now notorious book is perhaps more than any other both the most reviled and the most admired book in the history of science.  Darwin set off a stormy debate and protest that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NDP Dims Liberal Future</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/22/liberals-stalemated-by-ndp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/22/liberals-stalemated-by-ndp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.policycentre.ca/?p=1133</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Voters with conservative leanings have consistently accounted for about 35 &#8211; 40 % of the vote in Canada.  But that has often not been good enough to put conservatives into government as it would in most countries.  There has too often been more than one party courting conservative votes.  The result is [...]]]></description>
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