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The Canadian social credit movement consisted of a number of social conservative parties and organizations in Western Canada and Quebec. The most significant of these parties were the Social Credit Party of Alberta (an antecedent of the Reform Party of Canada) and the British Columbia Social Credit Party which ruled their respective provinces ...
Instead, these "republican conservatives" preferred the American federal-state system and the US constitution, seeing the American model of checks and balances as offering Canada a more fair and conservative form of democracy. They debated constitutional changes that included an elected governor, an elected legislative council, and a possible ...
Communist Party. The Communist Party of Canada changed its name multiple times in its history. It was founded as the Communist Party of Canada in 1921. It was underground until 1924, and founded a public face, Workers' Party of Canada, from 1922 until 1924 when the Communist Party was legalized.
Vancouver is one of two major cities in Canada to have political parties at the municipal level, the other being Montreal. [6] Municipal politics in Vancouver were historically dominated by the centre-right Non-Partisan Association , a "free enterprise coalition" originally established to oppose the influence of the democratic socialist Co ...
The Conservative Party of Canada (CPC; French: Parti conservateur du Canada, PCC), colloquially known as the Tories or simply the Conservatives, is a federal political party in Canada. It was formed in 2003 by the merger of the two main right-leaning parties, the Progressive Conservative Party (PC Party) and the Canadian Alliance , the latter ...
Meighen loses his Portage la Prairie seat again. United Farmers parties take 12 seats and Labour four, giving Canada a rare Parliament with six parties in the House each with four or more seats. 116 91 11 12 [5] 8 7 245 17th 1930 R. B. Bennett's Conservatives win a majority, defeating the Liberals under Prime Minister Mackenzie King. 134 90 9 ...
This is a list of leaders of the Conservative Party of Canada (historical) (1867–1942), Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (1942–2003), and Conservative Party of Canada (2003–present) ("the Tory parties"), and of prime ministers of Canada after Confederation who were members of those parties.
Republican Party of Canada; Réseau de Résistance du Québécois; U. United Irish Uprising in Newfoundland This page was last edited on 2 June 2024, at 21:05 ...