Original sentence: " The speech was made to members of the American right-wing think tank the Council for National Policy.A noteworthy example of right-wing anti-Canadianism arose in 1997 when Stephen Harper, who was at the time vice-president of the right-wing lobby group the National Citizens Coalition, stated he believed "Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it.Harper himself dismissed the comments when they were cited by the centrist Liberal Party in attack ads against him during the 2006 Canadian federal election, saying that they were meant as humour, not serious analysis.Some anti-Canadian criticism from a few in the right of the political spectrum is coupled with proposals that the conservative province of Alberta secede from the country to form a new nation, either on its own or with other Western provinces
Edited sentence: " The speech was made to members of the American conservative think tank the Council for National Policy.An example of conservative anti-Canadianism arose in 1997 when Stephen Harper, who was at the time vice-president of the conservative lobby group the National Citizens Coalition, stated he believed "Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it.Harper himself dismissed the comments when they were cited by the centre-left Liberal Party in attack ads against him during the 2006 Canadian federal election, saying that they were meant as humour, not serious analysis.Some anti-Canadian criticism from a few in the right of the political spectrum is coupled with proposals that the province of Alberta secede from the country to form a new nation, either on its own or with other Western provinces