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	Canada Election 2004 Voter Guide: Political Parties - Conservative Party of Canada
		In the election of 1997 the pattern of voting remained pretty much unchanged: Reform took 60 seats, mostly in the west, the BQ took 44 seats in Quebec, and the Liberals took 155 seats, mostly in Ontario.
		After controversial votes were held within each party, the agreement was ratified in mid-December of 2003, and the parties were merged later that month into a single party called the Conservative Party of Canada.
		The party came into being without a constitution or a set of policies: the merger was ratified with each party's members hoping that, after the merger, they would have enough power to determine the direction of the party.
	www.mondopolitico.com /elections/canada2004/parties/conservative.htm (1887 words)

	Canadian federal election, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Conservative Party results are compared to the combined totals of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party in the 2000 election.
		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.
		The majority of Conservative candidates and all CHP candidates opposed it; the Conservative party's official stance was for the issue to be resolved by a free vote in the Commons.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/C/Canadian-federal-election,-2004.htm (2444 words)

	Canada Election 2004 Voter Guide: Political Parties - Liberal Party of Canada
		Falling Liberal fortunes in Quebec have given rise to the possibility that Canada's new Conservative Party (which is very strong west of Ontario, and is poised to win tens of rural and suburban seats in Ontario) may form the next government.
		The Liberal Party has no ideology to speak of: it is a party focussed first and foremost on seizing and holding political power, and has shown incredible ideological flexibility in the furtherance of its goal.
		Although the party's current leader, Paul Martin, is repeatedly given kudos for "slaying the deficit" by cutting spending, the fact of the matter is that Liberal spending did not decrease under Martin: rather, tax revenues were increased, and overall spending increased each year (though, not as much as revenues increased).
	www.mondopolitico.com /elections/canada2004/parties/liberal.htm (598 words)

	Freedom Party of Canada: What's New
		McKeever for his views on the election of Stephen Harper to the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada, and the effects that election outcome may have on the next federal general election.
		Party Leader Paul McKeever will be the guest of Peter Warren on his widely-listened-to radio program, Warren on the Weekend (Corus radio network, CKNW/AM980).
		Building on the positioning achieved by Freedom Party of Ontario during Ontario's provincial election, and the party's growth since election 1999 (FpO ran almost twice as many candidates as it did in 1999), it was decided that the party will prepare to run its first slate of candidates in a federal election.
	www.freedomparty.ca /htm/en/whatsnew.htm (384 words)

	FT October 2004: Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Harper won the leadership of this new party, which offered Canadians a leader who was unapologetically conservative on fiscal and economic issues, committed to a more pro-American foreign policy, and open to social conservatism—he was against same-sex marriage and amenable to a debate about trimming Canada’s unlimited abortion license.
		The Conservative Party, no longer plagued by vote-splitting between two parties, increased its seat total to ninety-nine and the Liberal Party was trounced in Quebec by the Bloc Québécois, as angry voters shifted to Quebec’s nationalist/separatist party.
		Canada’s major national media are smaller, more ideologically leftist, and more homogeneous than the U.S. media, and if they have agreed that socially conservative statements constitute an ipso facto campaign gaffe, then it is undeniable that a major obstacle has been established.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0410/opinion/desouza.htm (1813 words)

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		Canada joined the Organization of American States (OAS) in 1990 and has been an active member, hosting the OAS General Assembly in Windsor in June 2000, and the third Summit of the Americas in Quebec City in April 2001.
		Canada is a significant source for the United States of marijuana, as well as precursor chemicals and over-the-counter drugs that are used to produce illicit synthetic drugs.
		The election in April 2003 of Premier Jean Charest and the Liberal Party of Quebec to govern Canada’s second most populous province was a significant victory for the federal government, which over the years has struggled, under the threat of secession, to accommodate the aspirations of the French-speaking province.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2089.htm (3792 words)

	Articles - Conservative Party of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The party is still referred to as "Tory" by the media and retains the tie to the historical Conservative Party of Canada founded in 1854 by Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir George-Ã‰tienne Cartier by virtue of the fact that the merged entity assumed all assets and liabilities of the Progressive Conservative Party.
		The party is often considered to be Canada's version of the United States Republican Party and the United Kingdom's Conservative Party due to their conservative positions.
		Former Progressive Conservative MP Rick Borotsik became openly critical of the new party's leadership during its initial months of existence and officially retired from politics at the end of the parliamentary session of spring 2004.
	www.bowling-balls.net /articles/Conservative_Party_of_Canada (2336 words)

	Stephen Taylor - Conservative Party of Canada Pundit: February 2004 Archives
		At a time when the Conservative Party of Canada is gaining momentum, this latest turn of events may indicate that Canada may indeed escape the Liberal Limbo in which it has been suspended for the past 11 years.
		Conservative MP Bill Casey's website at gunregistry.ca compares the billion dollar pricetag of the program, which has been largely ineffective, to what else could be bought for $1 Billion.
		In a recent column concerning the Conservative Party of Canada leadership race, Rex Murphy mused perplexedly over the paucity of confabulatory prose by this nation's columnists and news writers on the topic of the race.
	www.stephentaylor.ca /archives/2004_02.html (6537 words)

	Worldandnation: Canada's right agrees to unite
		A single Conservative Party means no more vote-splitting that has helped the Liberals win three straight Parliament majorities in the past decade, the leaders said in announcing their agreement.
		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.
		He won the Progressive Conservative leadership this year with a convention-floor promise not to merge with the Alliance, and faces a backlash for his reversal.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/10/17/Worldandnation/Canada_s_right_agrees.shtml (462 words)

	Conservative Life - Canadian Politics - Conservative Party of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The conservative coalition poised to seize power from the socialists is comprised of two distinct conservative parties that, in many ways, mirror the former parties occupying the right here in Canada.
		These two parties have a long standing dislike for one another with the CSU critical of the radical tax reductions proposed by their rivals on the right and the CDU at odds with the socially conservative stances of their southern ideological cousins.
		I believe the Conservative Party of Canada is poised to win the pending election in which case history will look favourably on the path chosen.
	conservativelife.com /blog/index.php/canada?cat=21 (2094 words)

	BlogsCanada: E-Group
		Newish, smaller parties, like the Green Party of Canada, rely on grassroots campaigning to get their message out.
		The fact is that the old Progressive Conservative Party was an electable party in all parts of Canada.
		I can be easy to forget that even in the 1993 election the PC party got about 23% of the vote---it was just that their vote was scattered all across the country, not concentrated in one place.
	www.blogscanada.ca /egroup (1745 words)

	Political Parties & Party Platforms - Election 2004 - CANADA
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		A pre-election comparison of the Conservative, Liberal, and New Democratic platforms, by economists Ellen Russell and Sheila Block, assesses the ability of the parties to balance their budgets and deliver on their promises.
		The Green Party supports the right of gay couples to choose a lifelong partnership and to achieve the full and equivalent legal status of any married couple.
	dawn.thot.net /election2004/pp.htm (1222 words)

	Catholic New Times: Do the math: does a united right add up? - Canada - Conservative Party of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Progressive Conservative Party leader Peter MacKay and Canadian Alliance chief Stephen Harper say their plan to "unite the right" will create a real alternative to the ruling Liberals.
		In the unlikely scenario of no post-merger defections, if the election were today the united right would get 28 per cent (in a June EKOS Research poll), 22 per cent (The Vector Poll in July), or 32 per cent (SES Canada Research poll in August).
		A charismatic new leader could format the new Conservative Party into her or his own version and present an appealing alternative prime minister.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0MKY/is_18_27/ai_111896825 (745 words)

	Michael Fortier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		He was President of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada for a time in the 1990s.
		He ran for the leadership of the party in 1998 but came in last with 4% of the vote.
		Fortier was a Progressive Conservative candidate in the Montreal riding of Laval West during the 2000 federal election placing fourth.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/M/Michael-Fortier.htm (189 words)

	Canada 2004 · Surveys · Canadian Federal Election 2004
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		The Liberal Party and the Bloc Québecois are the front-running parties in Québec.
	www.nodice.ca /election2004/survey.html (441 words)

	ESR \| January 26, 2004 \| What if you started a new party and nobody came?
		As the election year primary season rolls through New Hampshire south of the border this week Canada is experiencing a leadership race of its own.
		The truth is that the Conservative Party of Canada leadership race is plagued by non-interest and down right indifference by the majority of the Canadian electorate.
		The new political party formed to unite the right once and for all has failed to capture the imagination of the people and the three candidates for leadership are still all virtually unknown.
	enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0104/0104cdnnobodycares.htm (905 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Canada / Stronach courts Canadian conservatives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Belinda Stronach, daughter of Magna founder Frank Stronach, is vying to lead the Conservative Party of Canada, which formed last month out of the merger of two regional-based right wing groups.
		But she is seen as one of the main backroom dealers pushing to unite Canada's political right.
		The Conservative Party has scheduled a leadership convention for March 19-21 before it takes on the governing Liberal Party in an election expected this spring.
	www.boston.com /news/world/canada/articles/2004/01/14/stronach_courts_canadian_conservatives (198 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Conservative Party
		The Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative parties voted overwhelmingly to merge on Dec. 3, 2003, forming the Conservative Party of Canada.
		Launched by former Progressive Conservative leadership hopeful David Orchard, the lawsuit stemmed from an agreement he made with Peter MacKay at the party's final leadership convention in May 2003.
		The Conservatives didn't unseat the Liberals in the election that followed in June 2004, but the party did gain seats and the Liberals were left with a minority government.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/conservativeparty (255 words)

	Decision Canada - canada.com
		MP Peter MacKay, who was instrumental in creating the merged Conservative party, says he hopes Stephen Harper will stay on leader.
		Some frustrated Conservatives are blaming Liberal attack ads for their disappointing results Tuesday night, but pundits say the ads wouldn't have worked without the raw material provided by the Conservatives themselves.
		Canada will have a minority Liberal government with the New Democratic Party holding the balance of power after yesterday's federal election in which the Bloc Quebecois also swept most seats in Quebec.
	www.canada.com /national/features/decisioncanada (843 words)

	CBC News:Harper wins Conservative leadership (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		TORONTO - Stephen Harper won a first-ballot victory Saturday to become the first leader of the Conservative Party of Canada – a win he said marks "the beginning of the end" for Paul Martin's Liberal government.
		"Paul Martin came to power by dividing his own party against its leader and against itself, and he is reaping his reward," the former leader of the Canadian Alliance said, referring to the political feud between the former finance minister and then-prime minister Jean Chrétien.
		He also said the united conservative party would mend the Liberals' "broken relationship" with the United States.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2004/03/20/canada/conservatives_040320 (510 words)

	Election 2004
		He said that during the past decade poverty has risen in Canada, affordable housing has declined, university fees have more than doubled, hospital waiting lists have grown longer and the rich have increased their share of the wealth.
		Broadbent served as NDP chief from 1975 to 1989 and led the party to an electoral zenith in 1988 with 43 seats.
		NDP Leader Jack Layton, who took over the party last year bolstered in part by Broadbent's endorsement during a heated leadership race, has predicted the former leader's return will boost the party's profile and fortunes.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/mini/CTVNews/1074685439345_78?s_name=election2004&no_ads= (578 words)

	Jacob Schwartz, Ph. D. -- ASTEROIDS
		In the October 2000 issue, I described a deadlocked election in November 2000 with Gore winning the popular vote and Bush the electoral with Bush being elected by the electoral college in December.
		On election day 2004, that same angry Mars is in stress with the USA communications planet Mercury, while restrictive and controlling Saturn joins our USA Mercury.
		In 1824 and 2004, heavy outer planets are at the Jupiter-Saturn (liberal-conservative) midpoint.
	www.asteroids.com (2062 words)

	Harper wins Conservative leadership
		More than a quarter of a million party members were eligible to vote in ridings across the country in a process that continued to elicit complaints until the final hours of campaigning on Friday.
		Delegates at the Toronto leadership convention Saturday were focused on a bright future for the conservative movement.
		Harper worked as an assistant to Conservative MP Jim Hawkes and then to Deborah Grey when she was elected in 1989 as the Reform Party's first MP.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1102081/posts (2548 words)

	Election 2004 - CANADA - Tools & Resources index page
		News Release: "OTTAWA, Sunday, May 23, 2004 - The Chief Electoral Officer of Canada, Jean-Pierre Kingsley, directed today the returning officers in Canada's 308 federal electoral districts to conduct the election of a member of the House of Commons.
		Election day for the 38th federal general election, set by the Governor in Council, will be Monday, June 28, 2004."
		Each of the links below offers a plethora of election 2004 information, some of it repetitive, but with different angles and insights.
	dawn.thot.net /election2004/tr.htm (644 words)

	Stephen Taylor - Conservative Party of Canada Pundit: 2004 Leadership race: fundraiser breakdown
		The numbers are out on the fundraising front for the CPC 2004 leadership election.
		The documents have been released (h/t BBS) and there are some interesting numbers from the "returns" of the Harper, Stronach, and Clement campaigns.
		Stronach did not have any financial support from any member (on quick glance) of the Conservative caucus (House of Commons), while Harper enjoyed wide support through many MPs (or through MPs spouses).
	www.stephentaylor.ca /archives/000356.html (205 words)

	Political Parties and Elections in Canada (Federal) - Les élections et les partis politiques au Canada (Niveau ...
		OTTAWA, Thursday, August 5, 2004 — The Chief Electoral Officer of Canada, Jean-Pierre Kingsley, announced today that the political party financial transactions returns received for the 2003 fiscal period are now available on the Elections Canada Web site.
		Click on a party logo on the CTV Election 2004 page for a list of key policies, or click on each issue for a comparison of the political parties' positions.
		Contributions received and the expenses incurred by registered political parties annually for 1998, 1999 and 2000 (1997 is available as a downloadable file on the main page).
	www.canadiansocialresearch.net /politics.htm (6200 words)

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