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Kelly McParland: Why would Liberals need values when they have power?

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When I was a comparative youth, there was an Alberta rancher named Jack Horner who was among the Toriest of Tories.

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Known as Cactus Jack, he favoured capital punishment, disapproved of bilingualism and the CBC, had doubts about unemployment benefits and the right to strike, and kept a keen eye out for the sneaking creep of socialism. He loved John Diefenbaker and disapproved of his successors, especially fellow Albertan Joe Clark.

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A year after losing the leadership to Clark in 1976, Horner defected to the Liberals despite disagreeing with mostly everything they preached. Pierre Trudeau’s government briefly got an MP from Alberta, Horner scored a cabinet post and, after getting clobbered in the next two elections, a pleasant sinecure on the board of Canadian National Railways.

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