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 Conservative Party of Canada (historical) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Conservatives under Macdonald returned to power in 1878 by opposing the Liberal Party's policy of free trade or reciprocity with the United States and promoting, instead, the National Policy which sought to promote business and develop industry with protectionist measures as well as settle and develop the west.
The roots of the party are in the pre-confederation coalition government of 1854 the parti bleu of George-Étienne Cartier (see also Quebec Conservative Party) and Ontario liberals and conservatives led by John A. MacDonald.
It was out of this coalition that the Liberal-Conservative Party (generally known as the Conservative Party) was formed and it was this period that formed the basis for confederation in 1867.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conservative_Party_of_Canada_(historical)   (1468 words)

  
 National Liberal and Conservative Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The National Liberal and Conservative Party was the name adopted by the Conservative Party of Canada in 1920 after the end of the Unionist government of Robert Borden.
The Conservatives, led by Arthur Meighen, adopted the name in the hope of making permanent the war-time Unionist coalition of Conservatives and pro-conscription Liberals.
Very few Liberals stayed with the party, and the name was abandoned following the 1921 election.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Liberal_and_Conservative_Party   (104 words)

  
 1935 Liberal/SDP/Libdem Party Manifesto - LibdemManifesto.com
Liberals see in the sudden dissolution of Parliament at this moment as an attempt to use the international situation as a means of securing another lease of power for the Conservative Party.
Liberals stand for a vigorous sustained policy of national development.
Liberals are convinced that a change in the policy adopted in this country during the last four years is essential if the poverty and distress so widely prevailing are to be ended, and if the peril of war which overhands the world is to be removed.
www.libdemmanifesto.com /1935/1935-liberal-manifesto.shtml   (1001 words)

  
 ARTICLE.htm
Here follows the transcription of some of those messages, the first sent to the Conservative president of the country and the second, to the leader of the Liberal Party:
This pattern of economic and social cohesion among elite families explain the implicit pact that bound together the Liberal and Conservative factions of the regional oligarchy and strengthened the upper class in the region.
National language and discourse were adapted to local circumstances without altering the "stability" of local practices.
www.javeriana.edu.co /cursos/aflorez/ARTICLE.htm   (6931 words)

  
 Conservative groups break with Republican leadership - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics
National leaders of six conservative organizations yesterday broke with the Republican majorities in the House and Senate, accusing them of spending like "drunken sailors," and had some strong words for President Bush as well.
Weyrich warned that if the Senate passes the omnibus bill and the president fails to veto it, "in all probability the party's conservative-activist core voters aren't going to work to help win the election for Bush and the Republicans, and they may well not even vote."
Conservatives, including some House Republicans, finally revolted openly over the $400 billion prescription-drug benefit passed by Congress and signed by Mr.
www.washtimes.com /national/20040115-112447-9758r.htm   (558 words)

  
 Conservative Liberal National Party Resources from the Right Side of the Web
The National Liberal Party should not be confused with either of the 19th century creations: the National Liberal...
The Liberal Party of Australia is Australia's main conservative poltical party...
WASHINGTON - Seeking to move beyond the focus on abortion rights, a coalition of liberal groups opposing the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel Alito is preparing a national TV advertising campaign accusing him of threatening rights through other areas, including police searches and employment discrimination.
www.rtside.com /directory/conservative-liberal-national-party.html   (512 words)

  
 The Liberal Party of Australia, NSW Division
NSW Liberal Leader Peter Debnam and Shadow Minister for Roads Andrew Stoner today said a desperate Labor Government was attempting to hide the truth from the community over the Cross City Tunnel debac...
NSW Liberal Leader Peter Debnam said today he remained concerned that the Premier’s response to the Lane Cove Tunnel scandal was to substantially read out the contractor’s media release.
News that Royal North Shore Hospital is broke and doctors are being forced to cut surgery comes as no surprise as hospitals around the state face similar conditions according to the NSW Opposition.
www.nsw.liberal.org.au   (424 words)

  
 America First Party
Dan Charles, National Chairman of the America First Party, responds to a Press Release by the Clarion Call to Converge Committee which distorted the AFP positions and mischaracterized statements made by party leaders.
The central focus of the America First Party is to put America and all Americans First.
Our own sadness, and the grief of a grateful nation, is lessened only by the sure knowledge that his suffering of the past decade has ended and he has moved on to a better place.
www.americafirstparty.org   (690 words)

  
 Australian Conservative Politics: news, information and links
The NationalParty of Australia (formley known as the Country Party) is the Australian Conservative Party of the bush.
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/4975/nats.htm   (18 words)

  
 The Nation Unconventional Wisdom Since 1865
Liberals need to find a means to bridge the gap between Americans' belief in liberal solutions and their willingness to trust liberals to enact them.
But to truly redefine the Democratic party and win the 2008 presidency, he has a long way to go.
Iraq is a nation on fire, a conflagration of America's making that threatens to consume everything the nation stands for.
www.thenation.com   (1380 words)

  
 The Liberal Party...
Liberal Party members opposed the merger of the Liberal and Social Democrat parties in 1988, believing it to be an inadequate vehicle for promoting genuine Liberalism.
The Liberal Party is very keen to encourage the participation of young people and has the youngest city councillor in Liverpool, Chris Lenton being elected in May 2003 at the age of 23.
Assembly believes that the Party’s commitment to a written constitution requires the use of referenda to amend such a constitution and accordingly resolves to amend the statement to read “The Liberal Party is opposed to the use of referenda except for determination of constitutional changes”.
www.liberal.motime.com   (5077 words)

  
 Debates: Bozell v. Alterman on Media Bias on National Review Online
Assuming Fox were as conservative as liberals charge — and it's an assumption I am not willing to make — it would now be one against CBS, NBC, ABC, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, CNN Headline News, and on and on and on.
Patrick Buchanan, among the most conservative pundits and presidential candidates in Republican history, found that he could not identify any allegedly liberal bias against him during his presidential candidacies.
For decades conservatives have charged that a liberal bias dominated the press; at every turn the liberals in the press have denied it.
www.nationalreview.com /debates/debates020503.asp   (1152 words)

  
 CBC News: Conservative Stronach joins Liberals
She also said Conservative Leader Stephen Harper is not sensitive to the needs of all parts of the country, and is jeopardizing national unity by allying himself with the Bloc Québécois.
Her defection from the Conservatives gives the Liberal-NDP coalition on the budget a total of 151 votes, not including Speaker Peter Milliken, a Liberal MP who votes only in the case of a tie.
Peterson, a Liberal who led a minority government in Ontario in the 1980s before winning his first majority, spoke to her at some length before arranging conversations with federal Liberals and eventually the prime minister.
www.cbc.ca /story/canada/national/2005/05/17/stronach-liberals050517.html   (868 words)

  
 The Conservative Party
While the Party leadership has launched an investigation into "blatant political lobbying" by some senior police officers, leading Conservative MPs have tabled a House of Commons motion deploring attempts by Labour ministers to involve normally neutral public servants in political controversy.
Conservatives have mounted a Parliamentary protest at the way the Blair Government resorted to politicising the police service in a bid to secure support for controversial anti-terrorism laws.
The Party's new Ethnic Diversity Council meets at CCHQ - Photograph
www.conservatives.com   (149 words)

  
 The National Party of Ireland
The National Party believes that in a democracy change must come from the bottom rather than the top, and to this end the voice of the ordinary people, rather than the faceless economists and spin doctors, must be heard.
The National Party is determined to ensure that the voice of the ordinary man and woman on the street will be heard in the corridors of power.
The National Party was formed in December 1995 to reflect the voice of those whose views are no longer represented by the political parties of Dail Eireann.
www.castletown.com /National.htm   (803 words)

  
 Progressive Conservation Party Papers
Between 1873 and 1878, the Liberal Conservative Party dropped the Liberal label in favour of the title Conservative Party which was in keeping with the flavour of Macdonald's National Policy and pro-British election platform.
The party is tied, albeit loosely, to the British Conservative Party, and in turn, to the ideals of toryism (collectivism and privledge as the salient features of social and political life), but the Canadian Conservatives have also supported business liberalism.
This fonds was in the custody of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada until it was donated to Trent University.
www.trentu.ca /library/archives/72-005.htm   (521 words)

  
 Another Tory Name Change
The parties of Canada have all gone through numerous name changes, such as the Liberal Party being the merger of pre-confederation parties like the Grits and the Rouges, and the Commonwealth Cooperation Federation became the New Democratic Party when it merged with the Canadian Labour Congress, but the changes occur the most on the right.
Conservative Party, 1830s-1854: Before confederation, then name of the party was the Conservative Party, who then opposed the Reform Party (present-day Liberal Party; a more pro-US, free-trade party) in traditionalist titles: Conservatives wanted to maintain the status quo while the Reform Party wanted reforms.
Conservative Party 1873-1878: After the Macdonald scandal the party chagned its name, while serving as her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/life_in_canada/104043   (404 words)

  
 John O'Sullivan on Canada on National Review Online
The first is the dominance of the Liberal party — or as they are known, "the Grits." The Grits are almost always in power because they seek to admit virtually every sector of Canadian society into their big tent and adjust their ideology to suit whatever the voters want at any one time.
In the 1993 election, the Progressive Conservative party went from being the majority governing party to winning a mere two seats in parliament and thus losing the status of an official party altogether.
The Progressive Conservatives were an unusual example of historian Robert Conquest's Second Law — "The behavior of any organization can best be predicted on the assumption that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies" — for the reason that they actually were controlled by a secret cabal of their enemies.
www.nationalreview.com /jos/jos200312091326.asp   (1018 words)

  
 Jason Daniel Baker
The Conservative Party of Canada-Its Many Past Lives******* While historians tend to fix the birth year of the Tory Party in Canada as 1854 (Page 455, Dawson, the Government of Canada,4th edition, 1963, University of Toronto Press), the official name of that party was "the Liberal-Conservative Party of Canada".
In terms of electoral potential and membership, the Conservative party that will soon be, will more resemble the great Conservative Party that was than the Conservative Party that now is. I hope people nationwide will sign up up as PC Party members to see that this merger deal is ratified.
On December 11th, 1942, the convention that chose John Bracken as Tory leader also ratified the renaming of the Tory party as "the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada" which it has remained for the past 61 years.
www.angelfire.com /biz7/hw   (311 words)

  
 What Liberal Media? --Eric Alterman
The fact that conservatives howl so much louder and more effectively than liberals is one significant reason that big media is always on its guard for “liberal” bias but gives conservative bias a free pass.
Is it the liberals who are purported to be running the newsrooms, television and radio stations of this country, duping an unsuspecting public into mistaking their party line for news?
confronts the question of liberal bias and, in so doing, provides a sharp and utterly convincing assessment of the realities of political bias in the news.
www.whatliberalmedia.com   (284 words)

  
 CBC News: Harper wins clear backing as Tories shift toward centre
Equal representation was a make-or-break principle for the old Progressive Conservatives, who feared being swamped by the larger Alliance party on leadership and policy issues.
Referendums on constitutional amendments and on issues of national importance.
Some voters, particularly urbanites in central and eastern regions, have shied away from traditional Reform party positions, particularly on issues such as same-sex rights and abortion.
www.cbc.ca /story/canada/national/2005/03/19/conservative-convention050319.html   (571 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Germany - Political Parties - The Economy and Population Growth German Information Resource
Six major political parties were active in imperial Germany: the Conservative Party, the Free Conservative Party, the National Liberal Party, the Progressive Party, the Center Party, and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Part ei Deutschlands--SPD).
The party remained important during th e Weimar Republic and was the forerunner of the Federal Republic's moderate conservative parties, the Christian Democratic Union (Christlich Demokratische Union--CDU) and the Christian Social Union (Christlich-Soziale Union--CSU).
This party was in the forefront of those opposed to the authoritarian rule of Bismarck and his successors.
reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/germany/germany26.html   (1297 words)

  
 National Libertarian Party
Third Party Watch's Interview with Shane Cory - LP Chief of Staff Shane Cory interviewed with Third Party Watch to discuss future plans and the current progress of the Libertarian Party.
Libertarian Victories in the 2005 Elections - On Tuesday, November 8, the Libertarian Party scored important electoral victories in Iowa, Georgia, and Oregon.
This shows that an increasing number of voters are receptive to the Libertarian Party's message of limited government.
lp.org   (578 words)

  
 Amazon.com: A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat: Books: Zell Miller
A National Party No More is a firsthand account from the enigmatic senator who has confounded his Democratic colleagues.
Many party loyalists will not like what Senator Miller writes; yet his credentials are beyond question, for few Democrats have worked longer or stronger for the party and its candidates.
Millers conservatives have had several years to repeal this onerous tax on the retirees of America and chose not to.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0974537616?v=glance   (1692 words)

  
 Stephen Taylor - Conservative Party of Canada Pundit: Liberal Monopoly
The properties on the gameboard detail Liberal scandals and how that party has failed Canadians as a government.
Stephen Taylor - Conservative Party of Canada Pundit: Liberal Monopoly
I figured that since the Liberal Party of Canada seems to have a 'monopoly' on power in this country, I'd make a Liberal-themed Monopoly gameboard!
www.stephentaylor.ca /archives/000027.html   (131 words)

  
 Republicans. Republican Party of America. Republicans.org - America Today!
They have become a party of liberalism and socialism, along with having the Communist party supporting them this year to get rid of our president, who is a very righteous and moral man who seeks our God and giving him guidance for leading our nation in the right paths.
The immoral party wants to seperate church from state, for they already have destroyed the viewing and placement of the Ten Commandments, which we received from God our common law to live by.
There is a very big difference between liberalism and socialism and the Democrats certainly do not embrace the latter.
www.republicans.org   (2454 words)

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