North American society has been changing in its social and economic spectrums over the past two decades. In turn, the current political ideological viewpoints of liberalism have digressed toward those of John Locke and John Stuart Mill of the eighteenth century in order to compensate for these changes. Reform liberalism, the popular political ideology at that time, was insufficient to deal with the problems that were arising due to these social shifts. Society's recent turn …
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…are also being used by competitive parties to win taxpayer votes in recent electoral campaigns. The classical liberal government is being portrayed as having destroyed all of the hard work of the pre-nineteen eighties' elected officials. If the liberal caucus wishes to be successful in winning the majority in the 2003 provincial elections, they will have to work hard to vindicate their actions by helping citizens to see that limited government does not mean limited gain.