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From his position high atop the political heap, Prime Minister Stephen Harper casts his eye across the land. Nine years of Conservative power have wrought great changes in Canada. Ruined it, say his critics. But the Prime Minister knows better: it’s a peaceful, prosperous country, which regularly appears in the top ranks of international surveys on the most pleasant places to live.

So how come he feels so threatened?

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It could be the loneliness of great power. Or it could be that, come this fall, he could be the only elected Tory leader in the country.

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The sudden collapse of the Progressive Conservative dynasty in Alberta means that only one province – Newfoundland and Labrador – is still governed by a party with the word “conservative” in its name. And that may not last: Newfoundland’s PCs are on their fourth leader in four years and have to call a vote by this fall. When a recent poll asked previous Tory voters if there was anything that would make them support it again, 65% said no.



That would leave Harper as the sole Conservative still in charge of a Canadian government. Should Thomas Mulcair’s New Democrats or Justin Trudeau’s Liberals prevail in the October general election, Canada would become a Tory-free zone.