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OK, Stephen Harper didn’t sign the separation petition, but he needs to say and do more

It’s all very well that Stephen Harper has assured Canadians he didn’t sign Alberta’s separation referendum petition, but that’s not good enough. It was, as the CBC’s online wordsmith put it, merely a quip. Nevertheless, if you listened carefully, the former Conservative prime minister could be heard to say at a collegial televised fireside chat…

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