The Alliance is a bold effort to reshape Canada's right by merging Reform, a federal neo-conservative party of Albertan origin, with sections of the Progressive Conservatives.

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So although a significant degree of skepticism is warranted with regards to the Eurasian Union, the Russian government has a very long history of grandiose projects that have floundered on the rocks of reality, its program of liberalization actually strikes me as a modestly progressive one that ought to be welcomed, not a neo-Soviet one that should be mocked.

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