Abolition Of Capital Punishment: Brian Mulroney

Progressive Thinkers Dept: The abolition of capital punishment is the most striking example, but there are others: acceptance of gay marriage; generous immigration policies; and tolerance toward cultural and religious traditions of newcomers at variance with the mainstream. Thus attitudes are insinuated from the top down in response to leadership provided by political elites, according to The Star. The era of progressive Liberal leadership atrophied with the advent of the Brian Mulroney and Paul Martin governments. Since then, the Liberal party s ideological vacuum and haphazard post-Chretien leadership has opened the door to the almost diametrically opposed preferences of the Harper Conservatives and among the many reasons that attitudes toward public issues in Canada are moving to the political and economic right, one is particularly intriguing. It is that Canadians who may have originally been indifferent to some government policies and even rejected them change their views once these programs are in place. Historically, these elites were for the most part a powerful faction within the traditional governing party, the Liberals exemplified by progressive thinkers like Walter Gordon, Tom Kent, Keith Davey, Monique Begin, Judy LaMarsh and other centre-left politicians. In international affairs, the likes of Lester Pearson and Lloyd Axworthy steered us on a peace-oriented, internationalist, humanitarian course. As reported in the news.
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