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In the 1950s in Canada, a unusual political phenomenon developed.

A conservative or Tory in Canadian politics who was nonetheless a prairie populist,

a strong Canadian nationalist.

Never before had Canada seen anything like it.

All the night, the labor-careist minority government saw the electorate almost double

this representation in parliament at the expense of all pre-opposition.

What they returned Prime Minister Jason Zegger's government to power with the largest majority

of any parties in the confederation 91 years ago.

He had been an admirer of Huey Long.

He tried to run five times for a seat in the Canadian parliament and lost.

He was only on his last four times, only on his fifth try that he was able to be elected.

So from the 1920s to 1940, he kept running and developed a lot of experiences.

He got there and tilted his message more in the favor of the type of politics espoused by Huey Long.

And this is sometimes at all with the conservative party of Canada,

which is by its name, maybe not as conservative as conservatives in the United States all the time,

but a fairly conservative party in policy.

So he's sometimes at odds with his own party.

Canada had been governed by the liberal party since 1930s, since 1935.

And now you're talking about the mid-1950s.

So you're talking about 20 years that the conservative party's been out of power.

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