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Articles - Liberal Party of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | The Clear Grits and ´´Parti rouge´´ functioned as a united bloc in the legislature of the Province of Canada beginning in 1854, and a united Liberal Party combining both English and French Canadian members was formed in 1861. |
 | | The Conservatives lost the support of Quebecers because of the role of Conservative governments in the execution of Louis Riel, the suppression of the rights of French-Canadians outside of Quebec, and their role in the Conscription crisis of 1917. |
 | | In April 2005, David Kilgour, one of the party´s two MPs from Alberta announced that he was leaving the party to sit as an independent member of the House of Commons due to the damaging allegations of corruption in the Liberal Party´s Quebec wing based on testimony in the Gomery Commission inquiry. |
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