There is political support for these projects, bolstered by a national election in Canada that reelected a Conservative Party government.
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In its first budget since winning an election in January, Canada's Conservative minority government unveiled 29 tax breaks together with measures to reduce the public debt.
Across Canada, the election has turned into a contest between fear and anger.
Yet since its election eight months ago, Canada's Conservative government has done nothing about the problem, other than scrapping a plan from the previous government.
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The ruling Liberal party won a big victory in Canada 's general election, increasing its majority.
Just ten months ago, during the debates held before Canada's January parliamentary election, Afghanistan wasn't even an issue.
For the election after next, Mr Lord might just be the saviour conservative Canada has long awaited.
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At the last national election, in 1997, Reform displaced the more centrist Progressive Conservatives as Canada's main opposition, winning 80 seats.
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Canada, for example, allows only political parties to campaign during an election.
Barely seven weeks after winning an election, Stephen Harper's Conservative minority government was fighting for its political life after Canada's three opposition parties formed an alliance to oust the government and install a centre-left coalition.
In western Canada, voters are accustomed to feeling like irrelevant bystanders: timezones mean that the election's outcome is usually determined before their votes have been counted.
In an election on May 2nd, after seven years in which no party has enjoyed a majority in Canada's House of Commons, Stephen Harper, the prime minister for the past five of them, won a clear mandate for his Conservative Party.
So perhaps it is not surprising that the hopes of Stephen Harper, Canada's Conservative prime minister, of endowing his minority government with a parliamentary majority at a general election on October 14th may end up being dashed.
Besides being attorney-general, he is also a rancher and small-business owner, and his call to allow cheap drug imports from Canada goes down well in a state where the cost of medicine for elderly voters is becoming an important election issue.
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