text: Sure, but Liberals are not the Canadian "left." 
  
  In any case, in the so-called "Free-trade" election, the PCs under Mulroney ran on a neoliberal platform inspired by Reaganism/Thatcherism, which was all the rage at the time. Indeed, traditionally, "free trade" was a Liberal issue, while the then (real) Tories sought to conserve and protect society and tradition from the unfettered operation of markets.