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  Liberal-NDP merger ‘will come very quickly,’ Chrétien predicts
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MediaNewspaper - Toronto Globe and Mail
News DateWednesday, September 7, 2011 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionFormer prime minister Jean Chrétien is fanning the flames of merger talk, predicting a union of the Liberals and NDP could happen just as suddenly as Stephen Harper’s successful bid to form a new Conservative Party in 2003.

Mr. Chrétien, 77, suggests protests from politicians currently denouncing the idea should be taken with a grain of salt, pointing to the example of Peter MacKay. As the last leader of the Progressive Conservative party, Mr. MacKay rejected the idea of a unite-the-right merger just months before he ultimately approved one.

“It will be done one day. And it will come very quickly or not happen,” Mr. Chrétien said Tuesday in an interview with CBC’s Power and Politics. “Look at the way that Harper did that. Harper had MacKay there, [who] made a solemn promise in writing that never he would talk merger with the Reform. He’s now the Minister of Defence. Things happen and they happen sometimes at moments unexpected.”
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