April 10, 2002
Negotiations had begun to form a right-wing Tory-Alliance coalition to defeat the Liberals in the next election. However, Alliance leader Stephen Harper and Tory leader Joe Clark failed to strike a deal when they met on April 9, 2002. Both leaders blamed each other for the failure of the talks. Clark accused the Alliance of trying to relegate the Tories to a “junior partner.” Harper rejected the Conservative proposals for co-operation because they “were not adequate to achieve the objectives that my party would like to see.”
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