CANADA: Harper to begin campaign with clear edge

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  • Stable minority governments
  • Ethics and contempt charges
  • Flaherty's 'campaign budget'
  • Fiscal consolidation
  • Tax incentives
  • Favourable economic context
  • Resilient growth
  • Advantage Harper
  • Conservative lead
  • Party strategies
  • Conservatives (143 current seats)
  • Acceptance of Harper
  • Socially conservative image
  • Infrastructure politics
  • Liberals (77 seats)
  • Ignatieff underperformance
  • Anti-Tory platform
  • Apathy worries
  • NDP (36 seats)
  • Bloc (49 seats)

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