The Conservative leader,
> Stephen Harper, who would
> be the beneficiary of a wider and deeper
> controversy, declared himself
> satisfied with Jean's statement, signalling that he
> is not inclined to
> devote more energy to it, except to score some
> propaganda points around it
> next election. Harper is holding back because you
> can't form a federal
> government without having a substantial chunk of
> support in Quebec, and he
> has been working hard to shore up the very weak
> Conservative presence there.
>
Isn't another reason Harper was so restrained that the Conservative Party harbors separatist sentiment of its own in Alberta, and Harper himself has made denigrating comments about Canada ("a second rate socialist country") that could come back to haunt him if he were to make an issue of Jean?
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