There are a number of conservative parties in Canada, a country which has traditionally been dominated by two political parties, one liberal and one conservative. A political party is a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power within a government. ... In politics, the term liberal refers to: an adherent of the ideology of liberalism —an ideology espousing liberty. ... Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies. ...

Progressive Conservatives

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was the primary conservative party in Canada from 1942 to, at least, 1993. It was the decendent of the Liberal-Conservative Party and the Conservative Party which had existed throughout the life of Canada—and even before the Canadian confederation—until 1942 when the party became known as Progressive Conservative upon the election of Liberal-Progressive premier John Bracken as leader in that year. The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC) was a Canadian centre-right conservative political party that existed from 1867 to 2003. ... This article is about the year. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... The Liberal-Conservative Party was the formal name of the Conservative Party of Canada until 1873, although some Tory candidates continued to run under the label as late as the 1911 Canadian election. ... The name which emphasised a revitalised National Policy and links to Britain. ... Canadian Confederation, or the Confederation of Canada, was the process that ultimately brought together a union among the provinces, colonies and territories of British North America to form the Dominion of Canada, a Dominion of the British Empire, which today is the federal nation state called Canada. ... Liberal-Progressive was a label used by a number of candidates in Canadian elections between 1926 and 1953. ... In Canada, a Premier is the head of government of a province. ... The Honourable Professor John Bracken, PC (June 22, 1883-March 18, 1969) was an agronomist, Premier of Manitoba (1922-1943) and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (1942-1948). ...

The Conservatives, and later the Progressive Conservatives, formed the government in Canada, alternating with the Liberal Party of Canada, from 1867-1873, 1878-1896, 1911-1921, 1926, 1930-1935, 1957-1963, 1979-1980 and 1984-1993. Throughout the period from the first Canadian election in 1867 to the 1993 election the national conservative party (be it the Liberal-Conservatives, Conservatives or Progressive Conservatives) always formed the government or the official opposition. The Liberal Party of Canada (French: Parti libéral du Canada) is Canadas largest political party. ... 1867 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1873 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1878 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1896 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1911 is a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1979 is a common year starting on Monday. ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... The Canadian parliament after the 1867 election The 1867 federal election, which proved how much canada sucks ended on September 20th, was the first election for the new . ... The 1993 Canadian federal election, which took place on October 25th, 1993, was one of the most eventful in Canadian history. ... The Parliamentary Opposition is a form of political opposition to a designated government, particularly in a Westminster-based parliamentary system. ...

In 1993, the Progressive Conservatives went from majority government to holding only 2 of 295 seats in the Canadian House of Commons, this was the first time they had done worse than third place in the House, and only the second time they had placed worse than second (the other time being in the 1921 election): they in fact placed fifth and last in terms of parties represented in the commons behind the Liberals, the Reform Party of Canada, the Bloc Québécois and the New Democratic Party. In the Westminster System, a majority government is one in which the government enjoys an absolute majority of seats in the legislature or Parliament. ... The House of Commons (French: Chambre des communes) is a component of the Parliament of Canada, which also includes the Sovereign (represented by the Governor General) and the Senate. ... In the 1921 Canadian federal election, the Canada through the First World War was defeated and replaced by a Liberal government under the young leader William Lyon Mackenzie King. ... The Reform Party of Canada was a Canadian federal political party in the 1980s and 1990s. ... The Bloc Québécois is a left-wing federal political party in Canada that is devoted to the promotion of sovereignty for Quebec. ... The New Democratic Party (French: Nouveau Parti démocratique) is a social democratic political party in Canada. ...

The Reform Party was a populist conservative party based in Western Canada which cut in to traditional PC support while the Bloc was a Quebec separatist party which cut into the support of the PCs in Quebec where they traditionally won support for their decentralization stance. Reform and the PCs finished with similar popular vote totals in the 1993 and subsequent elections but, under the first past the post electoral system the Reformers won many more seats due to their strong regional support in the West verses the thin national support for the PCs across Canada. Populism is a political ideology or rhetorical style that holds that the common person is oppressed by the elite in society, which exists only to serve its own interests, and therefore, the instruments of the State need to be grasped from this self-serving elite and instead used for the... Western Canada normally refers to three or four Canadian provinces: British Columbia (a few exclude the coast) Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba (possibly) Definitions The term is sometimes disputed by residents of the most Western provinces (British Columbia and Alberta) because Manitoba is, geographically speaking, the centre of Canada. ... Quebec The Quebec sovereignty movement is a movement calling for the attainment of sovereignty for Quebec, a province of the country of Canada. ... During the 1960s, a terrorist group known as the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) launched a decade of bombings, robberies and attacks on government offices. ... Decentralisation (or decentralization) is any of various means of more widely distributing decision-making to bring it closer to the point of service or action. ... This article is about the political process. ... The first-past-the-post electoral system is a voting system for single-member districts, variously called first-past-the-post (FPTP or FPP), winner-take-all, plurality voting, or relative majority. ...

In the 1997 election the PCs and Reform continued to run approximately at par in popular vote and both increased their share of seats: Reform from 52 to 60 and Progressive Conservatives from 2 to 20. Despite this neither rivalled the Liberals for power and the Reformers tried to "unite the right" with their United Alternative initiative. This talks were non-starters for many Progressive Conservatives who saw themselves as the national party of Sir John A. Macdonald, however the United Alternative did attract some provincial Blue Tories and morphed into the Canadian Alliance. 36th Parliament The Canadian federal election of 1997 was held on June 2, 1997, to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons. ... Unite the Right, also referred to as the United Alternative, was a Canadian political movement from 1997 until 2003. ... The Right Honourable Sir John Alexander Macdonald, KCMG, GCB, QC, PC (January 11, 1815 – June 6, 1891) was the first Prime Minister of Canada from July 1, 1867 – November 5, 1873 and October 17, 1878 – June 6, 1891. ... Blue Tories are, in Canadian politics, members of the former Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and current Conservative Party of Canada who are more conservative than the moderate Red Tories, who tend to be the influential centrist faction in Canadas right-wing political parties. ... The Canadian Alliance (in full, the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance) was a Canadian right_of_centre conservative political party that existed from 2000 to 2003. ...

In the 2000 election the PCs were reduced to 12 seats, while the new Canadian Alliance gained seats. Despite Alliance leadership troubles, the PCs were unable to make significant gains in opinion polls and former Prime Minister Joe Clark resigned as leader. Following Clark's resignation as leader, Peter Mackay was elected at the 2003 PC leadership convention. Mackay began a process of talks which led to the merger of the PCs with the Alliance and the creation of a new Conservative Party of Canada. This alienated many Red Tories, including Clark, who refused to join the new party. The 2000 Canadian federal election was held on November 27, 2000. ... Opinion polls are surveys of opinion using sampling. ... The Prime Minister of Canada, the head of the Canadian government, is usually the leader of the political party with the most seats in the Canadian House of Commons. ... The Right Honourable Charles Joseph Clark, PC , CC , AOE , MA , BA , LL.D. (born June 5, 1939) was the sixteenth prime minister of Canada from June 4, 1979, to March 2, 1980. ... Peter G. MacKay The Honourable Peter Gordon MacKay, PC, MP, (born September 27, 1965) was the final leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC Party). ... The 2003 Progressive Conservative leadership convention was held on May 31, 2003 to elect a leader or the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. ... The Conservative Party of Canada (French: Parti conservateur du Canada) is a right wing political party in Canada, formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in December 2003. ... Red Tory is a nickname given to a political tradition in Canadas conservative political parties. ...

Today's Conservative Party of Canada

The successful merger of the Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance was followed by moderate success in the 2004 election which saw the new party win 99 of 308 seats, an increase from its total of 72 of 301 seats prior to the election and 78 seats won between the two parties in 2000. Detractors pointed to the fact, however, that the new party received 7% less in popular vote than the total of the two forerunner parties in 2000. A Canadian federal election (more formally, the 38th general election) was held on June 28, 2004 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons. ...

In the spring of 2005, during the sponsorship scandal, the Conservatives surpassed the Liberals in opinion polls for the first time in decades, however their support plummeted thereafter. It remains to be seen what level of support the party will enjoy in the next election. Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Spring, 1573. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Although law requires only that the 39th general election must be held by 2009, there is emerging certainty that a federal election to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons will be held in Canada no later than early 2006. ...

Provincial parties

A number of Canadian provinces still have Progressive Conservative parties, or parties that once used that name and changed indepentently of the federal change. These parties all remain the largest conservative party in their respective province. Canada consists of ten provinces and three territories. ...

Progressive Conservatives

• Alberta
• Manitoba
• New Brunswick
• Newfoundland and Labrador
• Nova Scotia
• Ontario
• P.E.I.

The Yukon Party, and British Columbia Conservative Party both once used the name Progressive Conservative, but changed their names in the past 15 years. The Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan is currently still a registerd party, but is inactive and has been largely replaced by the Saskatchewan Party which was formed by Saskatchewan PC members following the corruption scandals of the Grant Devine government. The Alberta Progressive Conservative Association is a provincial right-of-centre party in the Canadian province of Alberta. ... The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba is a right-of-centre political party in Manitoba, Canada. ... The Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick is a political party in New Brunswick, Canada. ... The Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador is a centre-right political party in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. ... The Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party is a centre-right political party in Nova Scotia, Canada. ... The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party (PC Party of Ontario) is a right-of-centre political party in Ontario, Canada. ... The PEI Progressive Conservative Party is one of two major political parties on Prince Edward Island. ... The Yukon Party is a conservative political party that was founded in 1978 as the Yukon Territorial Progressive Conservative Party and was elected as the territorys first party-based government in 1979 under Chris Pearson. ... The British Columbia Conservative Party (also known as the Tories) is a conservative political party in British Columbia, Canada. ... The Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan is a political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. ... The Saskatchewan Party is a conservative political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. ... Donald Grant Devine (born 1944) was the Progressive Conservative Premier of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan from May 8, 1982 to November 1, 1991. ...

Other provincial conservative parties

The following conservative parties have seats in provincial legislatures: A legislature is a governmental deliberative body with the power to adopt laws. ...

• The Action démocratique du Québec in Quebec.
• The Alberta Alliance in Alberta.

Some would argue that the following, nominally "Liberal" parties are in fact conservative parties: The Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ) is a fiscally right-wing political party in Quebec, Canada. ... The Alberta Alliance is a right wing political party in Alberta. ...

• British Columbia Liberal Party
• Quebec Liberal Party

The British Columbia Liberal Party (usually called the BC Liberal Party) is a right-of-centre provincial political party in British Columbia, Canada, differing from some other right-of-centre parties in being fiscally conservative and socially moderate (or neoliberal). ... The Parti libéral du Québec (Liberal Party of Quebec), or PLQ, is a liberal political party in the Canadian province of Quebec. ...

Smaller federal conservative parties

• The Christian Heritage Party is a religious, social conservative party
• The Progressive Canadian Party bills itself as the successor to the old PC Party and advocated fiscal conservatism mixed with social liberalism
• The Libertarian Party of Canada, like many Libertarian parties, ia portrayed by many in the media as a conservative party