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	Progressive Conservative Party of Canada information - Search.com
		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 7, 2003, when it merged with the Canadian Alliance to form the new Conservative Party.
		Diefenbaker remained Progressive Conservative leader until 1967, when increasing unease at his reactionary policies, authoritarian leadership, and perceived unelectability led to the 1967 leadership convention where Nova Scotia Premier Robert Stanfield was elected out of a field of eleven candidates that included Diefenbaker and Manitoba Premier Duff Roblin.
	www.search.com /reference/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Canada (3493 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Politics of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Party discipline in Canada is stronger than in the United Kingdom, and more of the votes are considered confidence votes, which tends to diminish the role of non-cabinet Members of Parliament (MPs), known as backbenchers.
		To avoid non-confidence voting, strong party discipline has long been an established fact of life in the Canadian parliament, in which members of a party, especially members of the ruling party, are strongly urged always to vote the "party line" or face consequences, up to expulsion from the party's caucus.
		Because the Canadian Conservative party was new, estimates were attempted based on the votes for the old Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and the Canadian Alliance party as the Conservative Party of Canada was a merger of the two parties.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Politics_of_Canada (5488 words)

	Conservative Party of Canada information - Search.com
		The Conservative Party of Canada (French: Parti conservateur du Canada), colloquially known as the "Tories", is a right-of-centre political party in Canada, formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in December 2003.
		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.
		The Conservatives' announcements played to Harper's strengths as a policy wonk[6], as opposed to in the 2004 election and summer 2005 where he tried to overcome the perception that he was cool and aloof.
	www.search.com /reference/Conservative_Party_of_Canada (4266 words)

	David Orchard: Opposition to the PC-CA Merger
		Members of the PC Party who are opposed to the proposed merger of the Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties, in a joint effort, commissioned the legal firm of Gardiner Roberts LLP to prepare a legal opinion on the ramifications of the proposed merger.
		Former Progressive Conservative cabinet minister Sinclair Stevens will be in court today asking for all documentation from the federal chief electoral officer on why he approved the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservatives on a Sunday, depriving opponents of the chance to take legal steps to stop it...
		The former Progressive Conservative ministers, led by Sinclair Stevens, plan to argue in Federal Court tomorrow that the registration of the new party was rushed through with unjustifiable haste on a Sunday last December...
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		The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario is a political party in...
		Progressive Conservative party, former Canadian political party, formed in 1942 by the merger of the Progressive and Conservative parties.
		Progressive Conservative Party of Canada former Canadian political party, historically (with the Liberal Party of Canada) one of Canada's two major parties.
	www.conservativethink.com /conservativeprogressive (856 words)

	People's Voice January 1-15 , 2007
		The Liberal Party leadership race which wrapped up on Dec. 2 in Montreal had all the elements of dramatic horse race, culminating in a delegate vote which saw Stephane Dion emerge from the pack to catch Michael Ignatieff at the fourth-round wire.
		The convention also passed a number of important resolutions, including a call for withdrawal of Canadian troops from Afghanistan, and a condemnation of the Liberal provincial government and forestry corporations for the rising exports of raw logs while mills are being closed across the province.
		The goal of the Communist Party will be to help defeat the ultra right Harper Tories - who are now the preferred party of finance capital - and in the process to shift the balance of political forces within Parliament and in the country as a whole.
	www.peoplesvoice.ca /Pv01ja07.html (13443 words)

	Articles - New Democratic Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The New Democratic Party (NDP) is a political party in Canada with a social democratic philosophy and moderate democratic socialist tendencies.
		While the party is secular and pluralistic, it has a longstanding relationship with the Christian left and the Social Gospel movement, particularly the United Church of Canada.
		However, the federal party has broadened itself to include the concerns of the New Left, which advocates progressive issues such as gay rights, peace, environmental protection, and social and economic justice.
	www.healwater.com /articles/New_Democratic_Party (447 words)

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	Canada Federal Election 2007 • Parties and Leaders • Nodice.ca
		Canada Federal Election 2007 • Parties and Leaders • Nodice.ca
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