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    Blasting 'weak-kneed' skeptics, Tories fan out to plug EU trade deal

    Fri, 04/27/2012 - 08:49 EDT - theglobeandmail.com
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    Harper dispatches 15 ministers, three MPs and a senator as talks over vaunted pact enter final stages

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