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Canada Election Watch: Canadians Vote for Change – Conservative Party Wins

January 24, 2006 /

Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper his wife Laureen Teskey, along with children Ben and Rachel, celebrate his minority government win in the Canadian federal election in Calgary, Canada, Monday, Jan. 23, 2006.

ASSociated Press: Conservative Party Wins in Canada Election

Stephen Harper and his Conservative Party won national elections Monday and ended 13 years of Liberal rule, a victory expected to move Canada rightward on social and economic issues and lead to improved ties with the United States.

Congrats to fellow conservatives in the Great White North.

“Tonight friends, our great country has voted for change, and Canadians have asked our party to take the lead in delivering that change,” Harper told some 2,000 cheering supporters at his campaign headquarters in Calga

How Canadian policy will change under the conservatives:

Harper has said he would reconsider a U.S. missile defense scheme rejected by the current Liberal government of Prime Minister Paul Martin. He also said he wanted to move beyond the Kyoto debate by establishing different environmental controls, spend more on the Canadian military, expand its peacekeeping missions in Afghanistan and Haiti and tighten security along the border with the United States in an effort to prevent terrorists and guns from crossing the frontier.

Here is to better Canadian-American relations.

Stay tuned……..

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