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Quebec City - Conservative Leader Stephen Harper defended himself on Monday afternoon against Liberal attack ads criticizing his party. The Liberal ads raise the spectre of a Conservative government that would change abortion rights and send soldiers to Iraq. "The Liberals resurrect every stereotype imaginable É I'm surprised they didn't say I was for conscription," said Harper, who was making an unscheduled stop in Quebec City. "The problem with Liberal attacks Ð what the Liberal party hasn't clued into in this election Ð is that nobody believes anything they say." "We plan to have Quebec represented the old-fashioned way, by sending MPs to Ottawa from the province," Harper said. Fredericton - The first group of Canadian soldiers on peacekeeping duty in Haiti returned to New Brunswick late Sunday night after three months in the impoverished Caribbean nation. Tearful family members greeted the 37 soldiers when they arrived at CFB Gagetown. About 500 Canadian soldiers and six helicopters sent to Haiti as part of Operation HALO will return to Canada by September. Halifax - A Swiss sailor who was trapped for hours in an overturned yacht off Newfoundland has been rescued. Bernard Stamm was competing in a solo race from England to Boston when his 15-metre vessel, the Cheminees, broke its keel and capsized.9/6/04
