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	Martin easily wins Canada leadership vote
		Liberal Member of Parliament Paul Martin gestures to supporters as he votes to elect a delegate to attend the Liberal party's leadership convention, in his Montreal riding of LaSalle-Emard, September 19, 2003.
		Liberal Member of Parliament Paul Martin hugs his wife Sheila after voting to elect a delegate to attend the Liberal party's leadership convention, in his Montreal riding of LaSalle-Emard, September 19, 2003.
		Chretien defeated Martin in a 1990 leadership race and led the party to national election victories in 1993, 1997 and 2000.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /en/doc/2003-09/22/content_266290.htm (549 words)

	canadian federal election, 2004 - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		This fear prompted those two parties to form a united Conservative Party of Canada, which was approved by the members of the Canadian Alliance on December 5, 2003 and controversially by the delegates of the Progressive Conservatives on December 6, 2003.
		Sponsorship scandal: badly hurt the Liberals in the polls and the theme of widespread corruption was used by all opposition parties, especially the Bloc.
		Fiscal imbalance: all major parties except the Liberals claimed that there was a monetary imbalance between Ottawa and the provinces and spoke of plans to reduce it, the Bloc Qubcois probably being the strongest denouncer of the situation.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/canadian-federal-election,-2004 (2236 words)

	Parti libГ©ral du QuГ©bec - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Parti libГ©ral du QuГ©bec (Liberal Party of Quebec, although it refers to itself in English as the QuГ©bec Liberal Party), or PLQ, is a liberal political party in the Canadian province of Quebec.
		The Liberals were in opposition to the ruling Conservatives for most of the first 20 years after Confederation, except for 18 months of Liberal minority government in 1878-1879.
		Under the leadership of Charest, the Liberals have moved to the right as former supporters of the federal Conservatives during the Brian Mulroney years gain prominent positions in the Liberal party under Charest's leadership.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Quebec_Liberal_Party (1189 words)

	Liberals' triumph
		The results have shown that Landry's leadership — or the lack of it — was the main cause for the P.Q.'s defeat.
		The Liberals were then led by Charest, who had left the Conservative ranks to strengthen the anti-separatist movement in the province.
		The Liberal leader is the first unambiguous federalist to head a Quebec government in decades, a sign of the fact that sovereignty has become a dormant issue.
	www.hindu.com /fline/fl2009/stories/20030509000906200.htm (1925 words)

	Peter Black: Others cop out, Copps jumps in (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Canada has already broken the ice, famously and disastrously, with a woman prime minister, so it’s not as if Sheila Copps is running to be first on that front.
		Copps has changed all that, and, though she shrugs off the dim prospects of victory, word on Liberal street is that win or lose, she’s done the party a huge favor by providing the excitement of a debate about ideas, not just a unseemly power hand-off.
		With the retreat of Industry Minister Allan Rock, a would-be champion of the left wing in the party, the field is wide open, at least so far, for the trilingual (English, French, Italian) Copps to mobilize the not-inconsiderable forces of women, youth, immigrants, social activists and other left-leaning types to her cause.
	www.pressrepublican.com /Archive/2003/02_2003/02212003pb.htm (871 words)

	Martin clinches Canada leadership vote
		Liberal leadership candidate Paul Martin holds up his ballot as he votes for a slate of delegates for the November convention Friday, Sept. 19, 2003 in Montreal, Canada.
		Liberal party members voted this weekend to choose delegates to a convention on Nov. 15 which will elect a new leader and early results from the Martin camp showed that he had more than half the 5,800 delegates he needed for victory.
		Although Martin is widely popular inside the party and his supporters control many local Liberal associations across the country, he is bound to be concerned by how few people voted.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /en/doc/2003-09/22/content_266211.htm (584 words)

	Rescuing Canada's Right
		Conservative voters were disappointed, party activists were distraught, and the party's leadership was left scrambling.
		If Canada wants to once again engender genuine policy debates, ones that are open to all perspectives, it's going to have to follow suit, creating the media and scholarly networks that will bring conservative thought in from the cold and back to mainstream acceptability.
		In the meantime, however, those in Canada's capitalist class are working to entrench a government opposed to careful fiscal management and sound economic principles, and, therefore, against their own interests.
	www.daifallah.com /rcr.htm (2697 words)

	A baton change in Canada
		The bickering between them was hurting the party, and Liberal bigwigs wanted the hostility to end before it could affect the party's prospects in the next elections.
		Luckily for the federal Liberals and for Martin in particular, the Liberals won the Ontario election with an overwhelming majority.
		It was a gruelling race for the leadership, with at least four ministers in the ring - Deputy Prime Minister John Manley, Heritage Minister Sheila Copps and Industry Minister Allan Rock, being serious contenders and the Minister of Natural Resources Herb Dhaliwal, who is of Indian origin, just stepping in.
	www.frontlineonnet.com /fl2025/stories/20031219001406200.htm (1176 words)

	Canada's Liberal leadership contest—a race to the right
		The four are: the academic and “liberal thinker” Michael Ignatieff; the former New Democratic Party premier of Ontario, Bob Rae; former Ontario Liberal Education Minister Gerard Kennedy; and former federal Liberal minister Stéphane Dion.
		In an election last January framed by the media almost entirely in terms of Liberal corruption, the Liberals were replaced by the present minority government of Stephen Harper and his Conservatives, a new party formed from an amalgam of the old Progressive Conservatives and the right-wing populist Canadian Alliance party.
		Whatever the outcome of this week’s Liberal leadership race, the emergence of Michael Ignatieff as a leading force in the Liberal Party—he goes into the convention as the acknowledged front-runner—speaks volumes about the direction in which the Liberal Party is heading.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2006/dec2006/cana-d01.shtml (2254 words)

	FED - Gerard Kennedy joins the Liberal leadership race - Government Relations - University of Alberta
		He told Canada AM that he is running for Liberal leadership because he believes that it is "a once in a generation chance" for the party to renew itself.
		He began his speech by illustrating his long-term commitment to the Liberal party, saying he was first involved with a Liberal leadership campaign when he was seven-years-old, and a local candidate visited his hometown of The Pas, Manitoba.
		The Liberal leadership convention is scheduled for December in Montreal.
	www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca /govrel/news.cfm?story=45575 (725 words)

	Liberal Party of Canada - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		Local fiberal cells (ridding associations) act as the main instrument of the Party's rule; providing the government with the population whereabouts, disbursing graft in an equitable and fair manner to local minions, and of course, delving children to use in Party rituals.
		Unfortunately, the Liberal Party's doom button is Out of Order, and this has led to a Tory romp somewhere on the ice in Nunavut and in the Turks and Caicos, wherever that is. In there spare time, the fiberals touch them selves as the woman/men find them repulsive.
		It uncertain when the Fiberal Party was formed, however, historical records (since suppressed) has shown that that John Cabot's first mate was a member of the Liberano$, an Italian secret society (but only in the south; there as no liberano$ in northern Italy).
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada (533 words)

	NDP Canada demands 'Troops out of Afghanistan now'
		It castigates the party both for calling for an immediate military pullout, and for recognizing that a future simple majority vote by the people of Québec to leave the Canadian state, based on a referendum question approved by the Québec National Assembly, should be respected.
		The result tends to reinforce the power of the party establishment, albeit at a time when the latter is shifting a wee bit to the left in an effort to connect with social movements and alienated voters, and to register more support in Québec.
		Members of the party leadership’s slate for federal executive were either acclaimed or elected by a similar margin.
	www.laborstandard.org /New_Postings/NDP_Canada.htm (2331 words)

	Canada
		Canada is a constitutional monarchy with a federal parliamentary form of government.
		In January, six Vancouver police officers who pleaded guilty in November 2003 to common assault were sentenced: Two officers were fired and given house arrest sentences of 60 and 30 days, two officers were given suspended sentences, and the charges against the remaining two officers were dropped.
		On June 28, a general election was held, and the ruling Liberal Party maintained control of Parliament for the fourth consecutive election; however, the party did not win a majority of seats, and the country will have its first minority Government since 1979.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41752.htm (5041 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Lauded by Party, Chretien Hedges On Resignation
		Even as his party paid a last tribute to him and his legacy, he kept the country guessing as to when he would quit.
		Chretien and Martin have been political rivals since Chretien defeated Martin in the race for the Liberal Party's leadership in 1990.
		On Friday, Martin was to be elected formally as the new leader of the Liberal Party and effectively Canada's prime minister -- but not until Chretien resigns.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A38371-2003Nov13?language=printer (537 words)

	Speech Delivered by Jim Harris - Green Party of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 2002, I sought the leadership of the Green Party of Canada.
		The Green Party now an office – and during an election offices in most major cities, we have 20 staff and up to 50 during an election, and our many of our candidates in their campaigns spent more during the 56 day election than the party used to spend in a year.
		When John Godfrey in saying he was going to run for he leadership of the Liberal Party said that it would have to completely re-brand itself focusing on the Green Party’s issues it shows how we are forcing the other parties to address our issues.
	www.greenparty.ca /page259.html (1546 words)

	Green Party Review
		But because the Green Parties were created decades ago when there was a lot less depressing information and a lot fewer scared people, a significant percentage of social utopians were among the original founders and some of their ideals found their way into the constitutions and original documents of the organization.
		As a result, political parties often run for office spouting slogans that sound really good until they form a government and find out that it would be a catastrophe if they actually followed their own platform.
		Partially, this is because most farmers are as materialistic as anyone else, and they wanted to continue in the cash economy.
	greenpartyreview.ca (7914 words)

	counterweights - LIBERAL LEADERSHIP RACE IN CANADA .. rolling update and autopsy on super weekend 2006 ..
		It no doubt says something about the Liberal Party of Canada in the fall of the year 2006 that a candidate like Michael Ignatieff has proved to be to be the clear (if far from impregnable) front runner in the super-weekend round of delegate selection for the Montreal convention.
		Yet in his quest for the Liberal leadership, it is both Michael Ignatieff’s main attraction and his Achilles heel that he is such a textbook case of the local boy who wins great renown in at least some parts of Canada for making good abroad.
		Our guess at the moment at least is that if whoever wins the leadership race on December 2 really does want to beat Stephen Harper in the next election, he or she is somehow going to have to get a little more up to speed on this side of the emerging new Canadian universe too.
	www.counterweights.ca /cms/content/view/162 (7254 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Canada / Canada swears in new prime minister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		TORONTO -- Paul Martin was sworn in as Canada's 21st prime minister yesterday, promising an "ambitious" agenda that would focus on "bringing freshness and clarity" to Canada's place in the world, making the government more accountable and mending strained relations with the United States.
		Critics have said Canada's military is stretched too thin and that its peacekeeping forces throughout the world often operate with outdated equipment.
		Since Martin was defeated by Chretien in 1993 as leader of the Liberal Party, he has made no secret about his ambition to be prime minister.
	www.boston.com /news/world/canada/articles/2003/12/13/canada_swears_in_new_prime_minister (916 words)

	Andrés Gentry: Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He said the Liberal government has shown serious disrespect over the head tax his ancestors were forced to pay when they immigrated at the beginning of the 20th century.
		The Conservative Party of Canada, influenced as it is by the old Canadian Alliance Party, will want to decrease the role of the federal government when it finally assumes power in either the next election or the one following.
		the liberal government's gesture of goodwill is indeed what it is, but i can't help believing that in a society where it is taken as a matter of course that quebec's interests are preeminent there will inevitably be another sovereignty referendum.
	www.andresgentry.com /thoughts/canada (8209 words)

	How the Liberal Party Works \| The Dominion
		Though other parties have not recently experienced the intense and public squabbles over the control of riding associations, their leadership is largely decided by who can sign up the largest number of new members.
		One of the less vague planks of Paul Martin's leadership campaign has been to address the "democratic deficit" by giving Members of Parliament more freedom to advance their own views in the House of Commons, and to roll back Chrétien's intensive party discipline in favour of fewer "whipped votes".
		Given all of the inward turns the power structure of the Liberal Party has taken, and accepting the Party does not currently appear to be at risk of losing its majority, it is not clear how Canadians can meaningfully participate in the governing of their country.
	dominionpaper.ca /features/2003/08/23/how_the_li.html (2160 words)

	CNN.com - Canada's parties take first step toward unifying - Oct. 17, 2003
		Canada's two conservative parties have taken a first step toward unifying the divided political right against the governing Liberal Party, but all involved agree the merger faces major obstacles.
		Leaders of the Progressive Conservative Party and Canadian Alliance announced a deal Thursday to join up in a new Conservative Party of Canada, proclaiming it historic in reshaping the national political landscape.
		Both parties are fiscally conservative, but the 3-year-old Alliance, which originated as the Reform Party in 1987 as a Western protest group, is less tolerant on issues such as gay rights.
	cnn.com /2003/WORLD/americas/10/17/canada.divided.ap (709 words)

	Canada's Liberals take a long shot with choice for leader - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		TORONTO — Canada's Liberal Party has chosen a new leader who's passionate about the environment, cool on President Bush and appears to be a long shot against Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the next national elections.
		It's a crucial moment for Canada's Liberals, who were in disarray after a corruption scandal and internal battles.
		The U.S. government has refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol; Canada was one of the first nations to sign, but Harper's government has since backed away from the agreement.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-12-03-canada-liberals_x.htm?csp=34 (676 words)

	NRO Debates on National Review Online
		The Alliance and its predecessor, the Reform party, saw the country as a collection of ten equal provinces while the PCs adhered to what's known as the "two founding nations" policy — viewing the country as a partnership between French-speaking Quebec and the rest of (English) Canada.
		Taube says that votes between the two parties are not interchangeable, because polls show that the "second choice" of Alliance and PC voters is Liberal.
		Indeed, the new party should be a case of sum of the whole being greater than its two parts.
	www.nationalreview.com /debates/canadaright200311060913.asp (1107 words)

	Canada: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
		Canada is a federation of ten provinces (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Saskatchewan) and three territories (Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Nunavut).
		The Liberal Party, led by William Lyon Mackenzie King, dominated Canadian politics from 1921 until 1957, when it was succeeded by the Progressive Conservatives.
		Canada sent 2,000 soldiers to help fight the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, but its relations with the U.S. were strained when it refused to join Washington's coalition supporting the war in Iraq.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107386.html (2197 words)

	2004 Canadian federal elections - Canada is entering a new period of turmoil
		However, to say that the Liberal Party's fall in the polls is strictly the result of the sponsorship scandal alone is to oversimplify the situation.
		The Liberals know this and in previous elections were able to split away NDP voters by raising the spectre of the fundamentalist right-wing.
		The Defeat of the Parti Québécois -An analysis of the 2003 Québec Election by Lorenzo Fiorito and Miriam Martin (November, 2003)
	www.marxist.com /canada/canada_fed_elections04.html (2229 words)

	Canada's Liberal leader a surprise pick - Boston.com
		Dion was part of the team of Liberals under former Prime Minister Jean Chretien who opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and turned down Washington's request to join.
		"Canada has a prime minister who thinks that the United States is not only our ally, but also our model," Dion said in his speech Friday night ahead of the party vote.
		The stunning defeat left the party flailing and delegates are now looking to the person who can rebuild the party and take back the House of Commons in the next elections, expected in 2007.
	www.boston.com /news/world/canada/articles/2006/12/02/canadas_liberal_leader_a_surprise_pick?mode=PF (563 words)

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