Reform Party and Stephen Harper

Understanding Alberta history: EDMONTON JOURNAL/THE CANADIAN PRESSALBERTA ELECTIONThe PC dynasty falls: Understanding Alberta history of one-party rule It was westerners who, in the late 1980s, identified deficits and debt as the single greatest challenge facing the country, and it was they who first tackled the challenge, in Saskatchewan and Alberta, according to Globe and Mail. The Reform Party made deficit reduction its number-one priority, giving the Chrétien government the political room to act. The 1971 election was one of only a handful of times when one Alberta party has unseated another. On national unity, almost no one remembers that, on Oct. 30, 1996, a Reform MP by the name of Stephen Harper put forward a private member bill, C-341, that stipulated a province could only leave Confederation after voting Yes in a referendum with a clear question – with Parliament alone judging whether the question was clear – followed by negotiations that included all the provinces, and with the result affirmed in a national referendum. Harper bill was known as the Clarity Act. The Liberal tweak of Mr. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.