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  Leadership convention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Unlike in the United States, where political conventions are held every four years to choose the party's presidential nominee, in Canada the leader of a party generally remains that party's de facto candidate for Prime Minister until such time as he or she dies, resigns or is dismissed by the party.
In the New Democratic Party and some of its provincial branches, the position of party leader was treated as all other positions on the party's executive committee, and open for election at party conventions generally held every two years though incumbent leaders rarely face more than token opposition.
Prior to that the leader of the party was chosen by the party's parliamentary caucus.
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 Progressive Conservative Party of Canada - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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.
Even though the Quebec Conservative Party dominated politics in that province for the first thirty years of Confederation at both the federal and provincial levels, in the 20th century the party was never able to be a force in provincial politics, and ultimately dissolved into the Union Nationale in 1935.
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.
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 Progressive Conservative Party of Canada - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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.
The union was ratified on December 5 and December 6 by both parties, and the new Conservative Party was formally registered on December 7.
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 Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Conservative Party was not yet a legally recognized institution in the province, however, and began to lose its conherence again after Norquay's death in 1889.
The Manitoba Conservatives received their greatest strongest from the francophone community in the 1915 election, due to the fact that the party was seen as more supportive than the Liberals of francophone education rights.
The party was a minor force in parliament, however, and was largely sidelined by the radical farmer and labour movements of the late 1910s.
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 Progressive Conservative Party of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Yukon association of the party was renamed the Yukon Party in 1990.
The emerging neoconservatives of the 1970's were significantly reduced in numbers in the party by the late 1980s, and many of the disaffected drifted towards neo-liberalism - and single-issue parties with a neoconservative bent, such as the Reform Party of Canada.
The union was ratified on December 5 and December 6 in a process conducted by each of the parties, and the new Conservative Party was formally registered on December 7.
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 Progressive Conservative Party of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Even though the Quebec Conservative Party dominated politics in that province for first thirty years of Confederation at both federal and provincial levels in the 20th the party was never able to be force in provincial politics and ultimately dissolved the Union Nationale in 1935.
As was common amongst 19th century conservative movements Canadian Tories opposed the of Crown intervention in social and economic advocated by the liberals of the era.
The two parties united to form new party called the Conservative Party of The union was ratified on December 5 and December 6 by both parties and the new Party was formally registered on December 8.
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 Conservative Party of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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-Étienne Cartier by virtue of the fact that the merged entity assumed all assets and liabilities of the Progressive Conservative Party.
The Canadian Conservative 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.
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 Progressive Conservative Party of Canada Encyclopedia Articles @ 216.92.85.60 ()   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Canada's first prime minister, Sir, was a Conservative and the federal Tories governed Canada for over forty of the country's first seventy years of existence.
Diefenbaker was able to win most of the parliamentary seats in Western Canada, much of those in Ontario, and, with the support of the Union Nationale provincial government, a large number in Quebec.
William Doody">William Doody, Lowell Murray and Norman Atkins also declined to join the new party, and continue to sit as Progressive Conservative senators.
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 Conservative Party of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Conservative Party of Canada (French: Parti conservateur du Canada) is a right wing political party in Canada, formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in December 2003.
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.
In Ontario, provincial PC Party leader of the opposition John Tory and former interim opposition leader Bob Runciman have also expressed open support for Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party of Canada, as has Stuart Murray, opposition and Tory leader in Manitoba.
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 Progressive Democrats - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Progressive Democrats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Political party in the Republic of Ireland, founded in 1985 by Desmond O'Malley following a power struggle with Charles Haughey in Fianna Fáil.
The party won 14 seats in its first general election in 1987 but failed to maintain that strength.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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 True Patriot - Canadian Conservative Club : Canada's Conservative Choice Online http://www.geocities.com/CanConCluTruPat
Not surprisingly, with this kind of discouragement from the party leadership, not many resolutions originating with the grassroots have ever got to be official party policy and so is the plight of the Liberal Party member who is forced to toe party line no matter how much it hurts their honest conscience.
We are sorry for trying to force the joint party idea upon you and are happy to take your beliefs and replace them with the ones of the past five years we built and created into the foundation of this website.
Under Manning's leadership, in just ten short years, the Reform Party grew from a western-based protest party to become the pan-Canadian Official Opposition in Parliament, an unprecedented political move yet to be replicated electorally.
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