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	Definition of Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba
		Party politics were weak in Manitoba for several years after it entered Canadian confederation in 1870.
		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.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Manitoba (1587 words)

	Manitoba. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Easternmost of the Prairie Provinces, Manitoba is bounded on the N by Nunavut (with a northeast shoreline on Hudson Bay), on the E by Ontario, on the S by Minnesota and North Dakota, and on the W by Saskatchewan.
		Brandon Univ. is at Brandon, and the Univ. of Manitoba and the Univ. of Winnipeg are at Winnipeg.
		Manitoba was explored and posts were established by the French as well as by the British; their rival claims were resolved when England’s conquest of Canada in the French and Indian Wars was confirmed by the Treaty of Paris in 1763.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ma/Manitoba.html (1303 words)

	Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba is a right-of-centre political party in Manitoba, Canada.
		Party politics were weak in Manitoba for several years after it entered Canadian confederation in 1870.
		The party was a minor force in parliament, however, and was largely sidelined by the radical farmer and labour movements of the late 1910s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Manitoba (1665 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Progressive Party of Canada
		It was linked with the provincial United Farmers parties in several provinces and, in Manitoba, ran candidates and formed governments as the Progressive Party of Manitoba.
		The Progressive Party was founded in 1920 by Thomas Crerar, a former Minister of Agriculture in the Unionist government of Robert Borden.
		Despite this, in 1942, Manitoba Premier John Bracken, a Progressive, was persuaded to become the leader of the national Conservative Party.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Progressive_Party_of_Canada (1436 words)

	Manitoba Progressive Party Annual Financial Statement
		Annual Financial Statement for the Manitoba Progressive Party
		Registered political parties must include a detailed list of contributors with the annual statement.
		Information concerning the contributors list may be obtained by contacting Elections Manitoba.
	www.electionsmanitoba.ca /main/political/finance/party_finances/1995/afr_prg.htm (64 words)

	Conservative Party of Canada - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		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 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.
		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.
	www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/Conservative_Party_of_Canada (2621 words)

	Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		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.
		The steep decline in the party's support and the impact of the first past the post system used in Canada resulted in collapse of the Conservative parliamentary caucus: the went from being the majority party to only two seats in the House of which was not enough to maintain official party status.
		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.
	www.freeglossary.com /Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Canada (2314 words)

	Manitoba History: Stuart Garson and the Manitoba Progressive Coalition
		His all-party government was established on the premise that the elimination of partisan politics would aid in the war effort.
		Accordingly, each party was to abandon partisan activities and, on this understanding, Bracken reorganized his cabinet to include representatives from all four major political parties on the basis of their strength in the legislature.
		Several members of the Liberal-Progressive party, however, were urging Garson to abandon the arrangement, and the coalition with it, by supporting the nomination of a Liberal-Progressive candidate in Killarney even if the Conservative candidate declared his support for the government.
	www.mhs.mb.ca /docs/mb_history/26/garsoncoalition.shtml (5804 words)

	Ecclectica: Manitoba Politics
		Manitoba was tied for last spot in job growth among the provinces in 2004.
		Manitoba's post-secondary institutions are vitally important to the development of a well-trained, skilled, innovative and entrepreneurial provincial workforce.
		Stable, long-term funding for Manitoba's post-secondary institutions, as well as assurances of financial incentives for new graduates who choose to remain in the province, will ensure that Manitoba is able to attract and retain the most-skilled workforce possible.
	www.ecclectica.ca /issues/2005/3/index.asp?Article=6 (1614 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Gary Filmon
		He was the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba from 1983 to 2000, and served as Premier from 1988 to 1999.
		He was elected to replace Lyon as party leader in 1983, defeating Brian Ransom and Clayton Manness at a delegated convention (see Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba leadership conventions).
		In the subsequent election, the Manitoba Liberal Party rose from one seat to twenty, taking seats away from both the Tories and the NDP in the process.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Gary_Filmon (1148 words)

	Green Party of Manitoba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Green Party of Manitoba discovered that the Councils of Brandon and Steinbach contributed public funds to the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba and the federal Liberals respectively in 1998.
		Thus, if a federal or provincial minister of the Crown conferred a benefit on Brandon as a result of a political contribution to his or her party, he or she would be guilty of breach of the public trust.
		According to Elections Manitoba, the following contributions to the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba were made in 1998: $337.50 from the City of Steinbach; $1,312.50 from the Rural Municipality of Hanover; and $2,062.50 from the Rural Municipality of La Broquerie.
	www.greenparty.mb.ca /archives/archives-public.html (1001 words)

	Green Party of Manitoba News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The amendments to the Act would prohibit donations to Manitoba political parties by corporations and unions, and by non-Manitoba residents.
		Last year, the Green Party revealed that the City of Steinbach and neighbouring rural municipalities La Broquerie and Hanover had together donated $4,950 to the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba in 1998.
		Elections Manitoba has not yet released the cost of reimbursements for the 1999 general election.
	www.greenparty.mb.ca /news/news062100.html (553 words)

	Random Works of the Web » Blog Archive » Manitoba general election, 1981 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Manitoba general election of November 17, 1981 was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada.
		The governing Progressive Conservative Party took the remaining 23, while the Manitoba Liberal Party was shut out from the legislature for the first and only time in its history.
		Progressive Party leader Sidney Green described Lyon’s initiaves as “bega-projects”, a reference to the government’s controversial fundraising with foreign corporations.
	random.dragonslife.org /manitoba-general-election-1981/8074 (411 words)

	Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		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.
		From 1917 to 1920 the party was known as the Union Party.
		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 - Conservative Ontario Party Progressive
		Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership conventions, 1985 · Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership elections...
		The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, more commonly known as the Ontario PC Party, is a right-of-centre political party in Ontario, Canada.
		Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Progressive Conservative Party of...
	www.conservativethink.com /conservativeontariopartyprogressive (1213 words)

	Neepawa, MB News
		Manitoba Progressive Conservatives crowned a rookie Winnipeg MLA as their new leader on April 29 and their choice could be just what the doctor ordered to give the Tories a chance to win the next provincial...
		Manitoba Conservatives, including Portage la Prairie's MLA, have chosen a new leader they hope will lead the party to victory in the next provincial election.
		Members of Manitoba's Progressive Conservative Party go to the polls this weekent to choose one of three men vying to replace Stuart Murray at the party's helm.
	www.topix.net /ca/neepawa-mb (649 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		WINNIPEG — For Marianne Mihychuk, Manitoba’s minister of trade and commerce, one of the highlights of her first trip to Israel was a visit to the Winnipeg Community Action Centre in Be’er Sheva.
		Stuart Murray, leader of Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative party and leader of the Opposition, described his first visit to Israel as “an amazing learning experience.
		Mihychuk reported that Manitoba is considering starting a diamond exchange, for example, an area in which Israel has considerable experience.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=2149 (648 words)

	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.
		As a speaker at the party's founding convention in Winnipeg in 1987, Stephen became a founding member of the Reform Party of Canada, serving as the party's first Chief Policy Officer and principal author of Reform's 1988 election platform.
	www.geocities.com /CanConCluTruPat (6895 words)

	The Manitoba Chambers of Commerce
		On November 4th, 2000 Stuart Murray became the new Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba replacing former Premier Gary Filmon.
		Less than three weeks later on November 21st Stuart was elected to the Manitoba Legislature as MLA for Kirkfield Park replacing former Health and Finance Minister Eric Stefanson.
		Stuart is committed to ensuring Manitoba is a province where our children can realize their dreams and a province we can all be proud of.
	www.mbchamber.mb.ca /speakers_series/stumurraybio.htm (465 words)

	The Black Rod: Manitoba Tories Jump the Shark
		McFadyen next revealed that he intended to breathe life into the Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party by turning it into an arm of the federal Liberal Party.
		Manitoba at no time pledged to backstop Crocus losses.
		At a time when the Manitoba health system is in shambles after six years of NDP mismanagement, the Tories have decided its time to shift their attention somewhere else.
	blackrod.blogspot.com /2006/11/manitoba-tories-jump-shark.html (838 words)

	4th-36th Vol. 70-Oral Questions
		Sutherland that $4,900 was donated by the Progressive Conservative Party to his Native Voice campaign and another new revelation from Mr.
		Filmon: Madam Speaker, I spoke to the people who chair the PC Manitoba Fund, the people who are--who is the chief financial officer of the party for the election, because this was a broad allegation.
		So you have to question whether or not there is any sincerity whatsoever in their urgings to get to the bottom of this when we can see where the political motivations are for the timing and the orchestration that is behind this.
	www.gov.mb.ca /legislature/hansard/4th-36th/vol_070/h070_4.html (3713 words)

	PC Manitoba - DAVID FAURSHOU READY TO CONTINUE REPRESENTING THE CONSTITUENCY OF PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE IN THE MANITOBA ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba is pleased to announce the successful nomination of David Faurschou as its candidate for Portage la Prairie.
		Born and raised in the constituency, Faurschou was first elected to the provincial legislature in 1997 and is currently the Conservation Critic.
		Manitoba Progressive Conservative Leader, Hugh McFadyen, said Faurschou’s passion and experience is vital to the team.
	www.pcmanitoba.com /story.php?intNewsID=97 (258 words)

	Manitoba Elections
		The Conservative Party will try to keep its majority government while the Opposition will try to form the next government.
		The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba presently forms the Government.
		He was elected to the Winnipeg City Council in 19175 and was first elected to Manitoba Legislature in 1979.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/life_in_canada/25690 (435 words)

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