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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 ...
This Western alienation led to the creation of the Reform Party of Canada as a Western-based populist protest party promoting constitutional reform to balance the regions' interests and sought to expand into the East—especially in Ontario—to displace the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. While the PCs and Reform had some similar ...
Kellie Leitch, a candidate for leadership candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada's 2017 Convention, was a vocal proponent of such government screening. [82] In 2016, an Environics public opinion poll found that 54 per cent of Canadians agree that "there are too many immigrants coming into this country who are not adopting Canadian values."
Manning's reluctance to allow his party to wholly embrace socially conservative values contributed to his deposition as leader of the new Canadian Alliance in favour of Stockwell Day. [3] Certain issues remain frozen among conservative circles in Canada, such as the attempted legislation to restrict abortion in 1990 under the Brian Mulroney ...
The Reform Party's slogan "The West Wants In" was echoed by commentators when, after a successful merger with the PCs, the successor party to both parties, the Conservative Party won the 2006 election. Led by Stephen Harper, who is an MP from Alberta, the electoral victory was said to have made "The West IS In" a reality.
Canada’s federal Conservative Party has removed a promotional video that was released over the weekend showing its leader speaking patriotically while Russian fighter jets fly in the sky ...
In 1942, Liberal-Progressive Premier of Manitoba John Bracken became leader of the party, on the condition the party be named the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. The Conservatives, and later the Progressive Conservatives, formed the government in Canada, alternating with the Liberal Party of Canada , 1867–1873, 1878–1896, 1911 ...
Scheer, 40, is leading Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the polls with some five months to go before the general election. While the immigration debate in Canada has been much more muted ...