On his party's monthly free half-hour on CBC last week, Progressive-Conservative M.P. Arthur LeRoy Smith of Calgary issued an invitation: "I think the extreme left wing of the Liberals should join the socialists [CCF]. That is really where they belong. And I think the Liberals of the right should join with our party."
Art Smith, no leader in top Tory councils, was just shooting the political breeze. But his suggestion was not at all fantastic. No first-rate Liberal Party leader is in sight to take the place of 72-year-old Mackenzie King when he retires or dies, and many politicos see...
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