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Joyce Murray: Prime Minister Stephen Harper

Murray Dept: Former B.C. environment minister Joyce Murray also said she favours the legalization, regulation and taxation of marijuana, supports a national carbon tax, and endorses co-operation between progressive parties at the riding level to defeat Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2015, according to Vancouver Sun. Murray outlined her views on those issues as she launched her candidacy Monday to be Canada s next Liberal leader and oTTAWA The only western Canadian in the federal Liberal leadership race called Monday for an end to all oilsands pipeline projects to the British Columbia coast as part of a plan to move away from a stone age approach to energy development. And Murray vowed that if she becomes prime minister, a minimum of 40 per cent of her cabinet, and the same percentage of appointees to federal boards, agencies and commissions, would be women. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.