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 | | The Conservative Party of Canada (French: Parti conservateur du Canada), colloquially known as the "Tories", is a right-leaning conservative political party in Canada, formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in December 2003. |
 | | The party currently forms the Government of Canada (since February 6, 2006), and its current leader is Prime Minister Stephen Harper. |
 | | Although only three years old, the Conservative Party is political heir to a series of conservative parties that have existed in Canada, beginning with Liberal-Conservative Party founded in 1854 by Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir George-Étienne Cartier which became the Conservative Party in the 1880s. |
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