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1038130
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b792500
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Blizzard, Christina,1948-
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| Title & Author
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Right turn : : how the Tories took Ontario /\ Christina Blizzard.
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| Publication Statement
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Toronto [Ont.] :: Dundurn Press,, ©1995.
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1 online resource (188 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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1281962511
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: 1459718453
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: 1554882796
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: 6611962514
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: 9781281962515
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: 9781459718456
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: 9781554882793
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: 9786611962517
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1550022547
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9781550022544
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| Contents
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Acknowledgments; 1 Coronation to Revolution; 2 A House Divided; 3 No Cents and Common Sense; 4 Out of the Smoke; 5 Don't Underestimate This Guy; 6 Beyond the Big Blue Machine; 7 Just Call Me Janet; 8 Dial 1-800-668-MIKE; 9 Sex, Half-truths, and Videotape; 10 Mussel Power; 11 Hey, Presto! Reform Vanishes; 12 This Bus Was a Gas; 13 Closet Politics; Illustrations; 14 Trust Me, I Can Do It; 15 With the Greatest of Respect; 16 The Young and the Hip; 17 A Blue Lady in a Red Outfit; 18 Shout at Your Spouse, Lose the Election; 19 Playing the Percentages; 20 The Dreaded Red Book.
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| Abstract
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It wasn't so much a big blue machine that chugged its way across Ontario's political landscape in the spring of 1995 -- it was more a big purple bulldozer driven by leader Mike harris and a new breed of Tories. Gone were the pinestripes and the cigar-chomping backroom boys of the forty-two years of Tory rule. These Tories were young, hip, and they were riding the wave of their Common Sense Revolution, a platform launched a year earlier. Still, there were only a few who thought the PCs stood a chance of winning the Ontario provincial election. Though Bob Rae's NDP government was foundering, Ly.
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Ontario.-- Elections, 1995.
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Ontario.-- Élections, 1995.
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Ontario.
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Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.
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Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.
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Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.
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Political campaigns-- Ontario.
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Propagande électorale-- Ontario.
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Elections.
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HISTORY-- General.
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Political campaigns.
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Politics and government
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Conservative Party (Canada)
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Verkiezingen.
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Ontario, Politics and government.
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Ontario, Politics and government, 1990-1995.
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Ontario, Politique et gouvernement, 1990-1995.
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Ontario.
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| Dewey Classification
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971.3/04
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| LC Classification
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F1058.B55 1995eb
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