Drubbing: Stephen Harper

Canada Day Dept: And that's only one of 26 languages -- apart from the requisite English and French -- into which the Liberal leader's Canada Day message has been translated and shipped to ethnic groups and media outlets around the country, according to CTV. A concerted effort by Stephen Harper's Conservatives has eroded that one-time Liberal bedrock, prompting a mass defection of new Canadians to the Tories in the May 2 election. The Liberals were handed their worst drubbing in history, reduced to a rump of 34 seats as dozens of multi-ethnic urban bastions fell and that's Portuguese for "a very happy Canada Day." It's part of a nascent campaign by Liberals to recapture the support of ethnic communities, once among the most reliable supporters of the self-styled "natural governing party." As reported in the news.
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