March 22, 2002
Stephen Harper capped 18 months of bitter internal feuding in the Canadian Alliance Party by winning the leadership and soundly defeating the trouble-prone Stockwell Day.
Harper, a bilingual economist and early policy guru of the Reform Party, maintained that he was not interested in joining up with Joe Clark's Progressive Conservatives. In his acceptance speech, he said his team will be working on the premise that the Canadian Alliance Party would be a "permanent political institution."
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