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criticized
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known for its anti-bilingual views, took a considerable amount of the
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Conservatives' interest as a "fresh face and a contemporary of a newer, younger breed" of politicians in the province. The
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after 17 years in power. Hatfield had been surrounded by a string of controversies during the later years of his leadership, leading to the party's loss of all of its seats in the
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