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In opposition, there's not much one can do. One doesn't have the carrot and one doesn't have the stick. One can't promote and one can't fire. And persuasion has its limits.
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Explaining why he did not punish objectors to his Liberal Party leadership, published in the Toronto Star, June 19, 1990.

 

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