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  Progressive Conservative Party of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The party suffered a decade-long decline following the 1993 federal election, and was formally dissolved on December 8, 2003, when it merged with the Canadian Alliance to form the new Conservative Party.
As was common amongst 19th century conservative movements, Canadian Tories opposed the rollback of government intervention in social and economic matters advocated by the liberals of the era.
In contrast to their American conservative counterparts, however, they did not undertake as dramatic an ideological turnaround in the first half of the 20th century by continuing to follow mercantilism and nascent notions of the welfare state.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Progressive_Conservative_Party   (2722 words)

  
 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first Conservative Party in Upper Canada was made up of United Empire Loyalists and supporters of the wealthy Family Compact that ruled the colony and opposed responsible government.
Conservative television ads which attacked Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty as "still not up to the job" were received poorly by the voting public, and allowed the Liberal campaign to portray the Tories as needlessly confrontational.
Tory, a longtime associate of the PC Party, was elected to the Ontario legislature in a by-election in March, 2005, in the seat that Eves held.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ontario_Progressive_Conservative_Party   (1874 words)

  
 Progressive Conservative party on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
From 1986, the Progressive Conservative party under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney attempted to resolve the delicate constitutional issues of provincial status in the failed Meech Lake Accords and unsuccessful constitutional proposals, and negotiated a free trade agreement (1987) with the United States.
Kim Campbell, the party's and Canada's first female leader, briefly governed and led the party (1993) before she and all but two of the party's parliamentary candidates were rejected at the polls.
She was succeeded as party leader by Jean Charest, who led the national party to a partial recovery in the 1997 elections, but the party's full recovery was hampered by the emergence of the Reform party (later the Canadian Alliance).
www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/ProgC1ons.asp   (822 words)

  
 PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE PARTY OF CANADA FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Although the party officially ceased to exist after 2003, several members of the Canadian_Senate continued to sit as members of the Progressive Conservative caucus, and the conservative parties in most Canadian provinces still use the Progressive Conservative name.
The party suffered a decade-long decline following the 1993 federal election, and was formally dissolved on December_8, 2003, when it merged with the Canadian_Alliance to form the new Conservative Party.
The party adopted the "Progressive Conservative" party name in 1942 when Manitoba Premier John_Bracken, a long-time leader of that province's Progressive Party, agreed to become leader of the Conservatives on condition that the party add ''Progressive'' to its name.
www.bellabuds.com /Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Canada   (2348 words)

  
 Progressive Conservative Party of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC) was a Canadian political party that existed from 1867 to 2003.
A powerful force in Canadian federal politics, the party suffered a decade-long decline following the 1993 Canadian election, and it was formally dissolved on December 8, 2003, when it merged with the Canadian Alliance to form the Conservative Party of Canada.
As was common amongst 19th century conservative movements, Canadian Tories opposed the rollback of Crown intervention in social and economic matters advocated by the liberals of the era.
www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/p/pr/progressive_conservative_party_of_canada.html   (2328 words)

  
 Progressive Conservative Party of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada is a Canadian political party, active in federal politics and in several provinces.
While the party was historically a powerful force in Canadian federal politics (Canada's first prime minister, John A. MacDonald, was a Tory), today the party is a shell of its former self, holding only 14 of 301 federal seats.
During the early years the divide was often religious with the Conservative party being the party of Protestantism while the Liberals represented the Catholics.
usapedia.com /p/progressive-conservative-party-of-canada.html   (742 words)

  
 Progressive Conservative Party of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The root of the modern day Progressive Conservative Party of Canada is found in the 1854 Liberal Conservative Coalition Government of the Province of Canada which was headed by Sir John A. Macdonald.
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.
www.trentu.ca /library/archives/73-1006.htm   (357 words)

  
 Conservative Council - Le Conseil Conservateur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Conservative Council is an independent voice of Conservative Party of Canada members from across the country.
Conservatives have to learn to make the case for markets as social institutions in their own right, instruments of the collective good, using competition rather than regulation, to discipline producer power, and prices, rather than bureaucratic edicts, to restrain consumer excesses.
Conservatives need to be seen in the heart of this city, addressing issues that are at the heart of Canada’s future.
www.redtory.ca   (2383 words)

  
 Progressive Conservative Party Leadership Race 2003 >> PoliticsWatch.com
While having the experience of leading a party can be considered a plus, many are concerned that having Harper as leader will make the merger of the Alliance and the Conservatives look like a takeover.
The Alliance MP is considered one of the party's strongest performers in Question Period.
Conservative Party of Canada National Leadership Event Friday and Saturday March 19 and 20, 2004, Toronto, schedule “at a glance”
www.politicswatch.com /Conservative_leadership.htm   (802 words)

  
 Progressive Canadian Party of Canada Parti Progressiste Canadien   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
We are guided by the Constitution and Policies of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada as they were at the time it was removed from the registry of Elections Canada on December 7, 2003.
Our purpose is returning the PC Party to its proper place in Canadian political life as a moderate, centrist option for the electorate.
In 1854 Sir John A. Macdonald called for all “progressive Conservatives” to join together to defeat a corrupt government and provide a moderate but courageous vision.
www.progressivecanadian.org   (314 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Canada's kickback scandal grows   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Martin has implored opposition parties to let his government survive until all of the facts are known in what is clearly one of the biggest controversies in Canadian political history.
With a 99-member caucus, the Conservatives are the party that decides the fate of the Liberal minority government.
If the Conservative Party can pick up seats in the hotly contested, voter-rich province, Canadians can expect to be heading to the polls within several weeks.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-04-11-canada-ethics_x.htm   (798 words)

  
 The Progressive Conservative Party of Talossa
As part of a project to understand Talossa's political parties, the national newspaper Støtanneu did a lengthy story on the Progressive Conservatives, which was in turn published by the Progressive Conservatives as a leaflet in February, 1996.
The Progressive Conservative Party adopted the basic design of this logo in 1985, when the Party was first organized.
The official colour of the Progressive Conservative Party is blue, which is symbolic of the ("blueblood") Monarchy and of the Party's commitment to social harmony and peace through democracy, activity, monarchy and patriotism.
talossa.8m.com   (789 words)

  
 Vive le Canada - Progressive Conservative party reincarnated as Progressive Canadian party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Progressive Bloggers is a group of Canadian bloggers who firmly believe that this great country needs to move forward, not backwards.
The Progressive Canadian Party also known as PC Party for short is a registered political party which has continued the constitution, by-laws and policies of it's predecessor -- the Progressive Conservative Party.
Somehow, twenty or thirty thousand "progressives" were to stay and moderate a party formed by over two hundred thousand Alliance members whose first task, more than symbolic, was to remove the world "Progressive" from the party name.
www.vivelecanada.ca /article.php/20050607184541865   (3761 words)

  
 Conservative Party Of Canada - Welcome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Liberal incompetence has surfaced again with revelations that 60 per cent of the residents of the First Nations community of Kashechwan, Ontario are suffering from a variety of illnesses attributed to the presence of E Coli in their drinking water.
HAMILTON – Conservative leader and Leader of the Opposition, Stephen Harper said today that a Conservative government will tackle Canada’s shortage of skilled trades by providing financial incentives to workers, and to employers who hire apprentices.
This website is the property of the Conservative Party of Canada and may not be reproduced in whole or in part without express written permission.
www.pcparty.ca   (285 words)

  
 Elections: Part V, The Progressive Conservative Party
The Conservative Party was created sometime before confederation and it was its leader, John A. MacDonald who paved the road to Confederation (after stealing the idea from the Maritimes) and won the first election in 1867.
He was first elected to the House of Commons in 1972 and in 1976; he was elected Leader of the Progressive Conservative.
Like the Alliance, the PC party (now I see why its PC party and not PCP; that would be like naming your party CCRAP… sorry…) is trying to reduce the brain drain or eliminate it (by changing the course of a river or not is not the issue here.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/life_in_canada/53228   (959 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Progressive Conservative party (Canadian History) - Encyclopedia
Progressive Conservative party, Canadian political party formed in 1942 by the merger of the Progressive and Conservative parties.
The growing problem of Quebec autonomy contributed to another two decades of Liberal government; Joe Clark, party leader from 1976 to 1983, was briefly prime minister in 1979.
Peter MacKay succeeded Joe Clark as party leader in 2003.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/ProgCons.html   (562 words)

  
 Mapleleafweb.com: Spotlight - PC Leadership Race - How The Leader is Chosen
The election of a party leader by convention delegates.
On one ballot they vote for a particular leadership candidate or indicate that they are “undeclared.” On a second ballot they chose preferred delegate candidates from their constituency association, campus club or party-affiliated organization to represent them at the national leadership convention.
This process is repeated until one of the candidates receives 50 percent of the vote or more and is elected leader of the party.
www.mapleleafweb.com /education/spotlight/issue_32/choosen.html   (405 words)

  
 Conservative - Progressive Conservative Party
Progressive Majority is a political action committee committed to progressive candidates and issues - economic justice, civil rights, education, health care, environmental protection, reproductive freedom.
The Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative parties of Canada seem to be well on their way to forming a new, single party, The Conservative Par
The Progressive Policy Institute is a public policy institute shaping the Third Way agenda with progressive legislative solutions for environmental policy (second generation environmentalism), education policy (school choice, standards and accountability), work-based welfare reform, federal budget strategies, trade policy, health care reform, and New Economy policy.
www.conservativethink.com /progressiveconservativeparty   (1263 words)

  
 CBC News: Court bid to resurrect old PC party fails
OTTAWA - Former Progressive Conservative party cabinet minister Sinclair Stevens has lost a court bid to resurrect the old Tory party.
The PC party disappeared last December, when it merged with the Canadian Alliance, to the disapproval of some of the party's old guard, including former prime minister Joe Clark.
The controversial merger, approved by party members in a vote, was worked out by Peter MacKay, then the Tory leader, and Stephen Harper of the Alliance.
www.cbc.ca /story/canada/national/2004/11/25/pcparty-denied041125.html   (322 words)

  
 View of the Progressive Conservative Party
If there is one conclusion that I have come to from the debates within our party and in spending time with Canadians, it is that we Canadians have always lived in a country where there was ample freedom to reap the rewards of work.
Governments at all levels and formed by all political parties over the last few years got badly off track by allowing themselves to get into a spending spiral that created this debt and high taxes.
In the light of these facts, we were surprised that in the last election campaign that we were the only party proposing immediate tax reductions, before the books were balanced.
oldfraser.lexi.net /publications/books/fiscal_surplus/chapter16.html   (1376 words)

  
 Home Page
Percy Barrett, Opposition Environment and Conservation Critic and MHA for the District of Bellevue, is asking for an update of government’s plan to deal with the dangers posed by the stockpiling of approximately two million used tires around the province.
In the meantime, our party will continue to provide a strong and effective Opposition to ensure this government is challenged on a daily basis for the poor decisions they have made.
Our party is moving forward with the strategic planning process needed to win the next election.
www.liberal.nf.net   (868 words)

  
 Canadian Political Parties/Les Partis politiques du Canada
Party of Citizens Who Have Decided To Think For Themselves And Be Their Own Politicians, POC
Parti municipal Rive-Sud - Équipe Gladu, PMRS (Longueuil)
Parti Municipal Énergie avec Sylvie Surpenant, PME-Surpenant (Ste-Thérèse)
home.ican.net /~alexng/can.html   (736 words)

  
 PC Newfoundland and Labrador
Thanks to all who attended the 55th annual convention of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador on October 14-16 at the Delta St. John's Hotel and Conference Centre and made the weekend a tremendous success.
Members of the House of Assembly adjourned the spring sitting of the Legislature on Thursday, May 19, 2005, having passed a progressive budget and several key pieces of legislation.
The decisions that need to be made will not be easy, but with your participation, support and understanding, your government will lead you through it in a planned and progressive manner.
www.pcparty.nf.net   (1385 words)

  
 Progressive Conservative party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Conservative party's commitments to a strong confederation, national economic development, and close ties to Britain were continued by subsequent Conservative prime ministers, John J. Abbott
, who led the national party to a partial recovery in the 1997 elections, but the party's full recovery was hampered by the emergence of the Reform party (later the
Pulling it all together: creating a single party out of the Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance Party has left some members of both parties wondering where to turn.(Unity) (Canada and the World Backgrounder)
www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0840231.html   (593 words)

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