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I was mistaken Sunday morning -- Canada's Conservative Party didn't elect its leader Sunday, it elected him Saturday. Harper's the man:Stephen Harper won a first ballot victory in the race for the Conservative leadership on Saturday with widespread support across Ontario and Western Canada, becoming the party's first elected leader.The deal with the "points", BTW, is that each riding (i.e. parliamentary district) is worth 100 points, which are split proportionally among the candidates. So if a riding in Alberta has twice as many Conservatives as a riding in Ontario, then each voter in the Ontarian riding has twice as much say as each voter in the Albertan riding. This was somewhat controversial in the western part of the country, where the party has more members, but Harper was largely their guy, and he won anyway. |
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