Harper's on right track, too bad some of his players aren't

The key to success is Prime Minister Stephen Harper's capacity to convince some people handling his party that the way to go is through a genuine debate on issues and not to demonize his party's opponents.

TORONTO—There's no doubt the policies of the Liberal and Conservative parties on the touchy subject of the Middle East are different, but I also believe that it's wrong to summarize the whole debate by framing it as the Liberals are anti-Jewish and the Conservatives are anti-Arabs. Unfortunately, the flyers last week circulated by the Conservatives into heavily-populated Jewish ridings falls right into that misleading axiom.

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