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Gemini Award-winning reporter David Akin is the National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service and is based at the CNS Parliamentary Bureau in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Monday, March 21

Background: Conservative Party policy development process

by DavidAkin on Mon 21 Mar 2005 05:10 PM EST

The Conservative Party of Canada adopted nearly 100 policy resolutions over the weekend at its first-ever policy convention. I hope to post some of those soon. In the meantime, here’s an explanation of the process the party used to develop the resolutions that were voted on at last weekend’s convention.... more »

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Killing the Conservative bogeyman

by DavidAkin on Mon 21 Mar 2005 11:47 AM EST

After a weekend of parties, a strong endorsement of their leader, and a newly minted policy platform which pushes them towards the political centre, Conservatives say their Liberal opponents can no longer paint them as the scary bogeyman of Canadian politics.

Liberals did that, of course, during the last federal ... more »

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