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	Reform Party of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It should be noted that while the Reform Party had similar views to APEC's on official bilingualism and the role of Quebec in Confederation, the reasons for the Heritage Front's endorsement were less direct.
		In the early 1990s, the party was controversially endorsed by extremist groups such as the Heritage Front and the Alliance for the Preservation of English in Canada (APEC).
		This conference led to the formation of the Reform Party in 1987.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reform_Party_of_Canada

	Reform - Bulletin Archive
		The Party will have to demonstrate that the aim of its reforms is not to encourage middle class voters to opt out of the state system, but to extend to the whole public the choice and opportunities currently only available only to a minority.
		Reformâs Commission on the Reform of Public Services has argued that spending power should be placed in the hands of parents, and all restrictions on the expansion of schools and the creation of good schools should be removed.
		In fact Reformâs opinion research, conducted in January and February 2003, indicates that the publicâs perception is a good reflection of the drawbacks of the NHS model.
	reform.moodia.com /website/pressroom/bulletinarchive.aspx?o=57

	Articles - Conservative Party of Canada (historical)
		The roots of the party are in the pre- confederation coalition government of 1854 the parti bleu of George-Ãtienne Cartier (see also Quebec Conservative Party) and Ontario liberals and conservatives led by John A. MacDonald.
		It was out of this coalition that the Liberal-Conservative Party (generally known as the Conservative Party) was formed and it was this period that formed the basis for confederation in 1867.
		Borden's successor, Arthur Meighen and his renamed "National Liberal and Conservative Party" were defeated by the Liberals in the election of 1921 coming in third behind the Progressives.
	oldion.com /articles/Conservative_Party_of_Canada_(historical)

	Liberal Party of Canada - Official Web Site
		The 1982 National Convention resolution 40 on Party reform had resulted in the establishment of the Presidentâs Committee on Reform of the Liberal Party, with a mandate to consult Party members broadly and to recommend wide-reaching reforms on the structure, organization and practices of the Party.
		There were a few years of party confusion; but gradually a pattern of party alignments emerged and by the time of the second election in 1872, a straight party fight took place between a Conservative government and a Reform or Liberal Opposition.
		The Partyâs platform document âSecuring Our Future Togetherâ was a plan that built on the solid and stable foundations that had been laid over the past four years; and proposed feasible measures for moving forward together and expanding opportunity for all Canadians in order to advance with confidence and success into the next century.
	www.liberal.ca /history_e.aspx

	In the Shadow of the Law: Divorce in Canada, 1900-1939. by J.M.Bumsted
		Some provinces had pre-Confederation divorce courts that continued to operate after the union, although divorce was a matter for federal jurisdiction.
		The basic problem for divorce reform in Canada was that it was a matter for Parliament, which refused to provide a general overhaul of the law until the late 1960s, in the process allowing outmoded nineteenth-century English divorce legislation to dominate the Canadian substantive law on the subject.
		It was theoretically possible for the judiciary to institute the necessary reforms, but the judges and the courts merely accepted the status quo without question.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/744/shadow3.html

	Reform in the Canadian Electoral System
		Party list voting is one of three commonly used forms of proportional representation and is without question the most popular.
		Raised voter turnout, representation to our minorities, and less government corruption would all follow with this reform.
		This way if there are four parties and party A scores 47%, B gets 15%, C gets 25%, and D gets 13%, then party A gets the victory despite the fact that there was no majority achieved for any of them.
	thevertigo.com /crew/kip/zero47/html/literature/Reform.html

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		The party and all the ex-premiers were defeated; and, in a sad end to his career, Whiteway came bottom of the poll at Harbour Grace.
		Early in 1874 Carter resumed the premiership, Bennett’s majority having evaporated, and his party’s position was confirmed in an election that fall.
		His party was prone to factionalism, and as a result the government tended to lack decisiveness, particularly in handling difficult external affairs.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=41263

	Tory Party [Definition]
		A similar usage for Tory exists in Canada to describe the Conservative Party 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 Reform Conservative Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in December 2003....
		During the American Civil War, supporters of the Confederacy The Confederate States of America (CSA, also known as the Confederacy) was the confederation formed by the southern states that seceded from the United States and existed from 1861 to 1865.
		Stephen Harper, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, regularly refers to himself as a Tory and has suggested that the new party is a natural evolution of the conservative political movement in Canada.
	www.wikimirror.com /Tory_Party

	Reform Party of BC Press Release - 01 December 2002
		Respondents were asked who they voted for in the last provincial election and which provincial party they would prefer as their provincial government.
		Although it is unclear whether Reform BC has the organization in place to seize upon its apparent popularity in this region before the next provincial general election, there is no doubt that this is Reform BC country.
		Initially, it was the transformation of Federal Reform into the Canadian Alliance that made Reform BC lose its popularity (SCE circa 2000).
	reformbc.net /news2003/rp09apr03.htm

	Free Essay The Four Political Parties of Canada
		One moniker that the Reform Party wears that could damage their hopes of ever being the opposition or the government is the fact that many Canadians have the stereotype that Reform MPs and supporters are red-necked hillbillies from out west.
		The Bloc Quebecois, a Quebec separatist party who only ran candidates in the province of Quebec in the last federal election in 1993, won 54 seats in that province, and claimed the title of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition over the Reform Party, who garnered only 52 seats.
		From examining the various party's web pages, it seems that the Liberals and Conservatives have the most detailed policy platforms, the Reform Party is simply lacking the detail of the Conservatives and Liberals, and the New Democrats have little information to research at all.
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	List of political parties in Canada - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		In contrast with the political party systems of many nations, Canadian parties at the federal level are often only loosely connected with parties at the provincial level, despite having similar names.
		Parties represented in the National Assembly of Quebec
		2.5.1 Parties represented in the House of Assembly
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/List_of_Canadian_political_parties

	THE DISINTEGRATION OF INSTITUTIONS AND POLICY: 1870--1920
		Prior to 1867, the Clear Grits, the Reform Party of Canada West, had felt the weight of the French vote in the old government, a weight that seemed to grow as the population and prosperity of the `West' outstripped that of old Lower Canada.
		When it came to a vote, in the first provincial election after Confederation, the party of Howe won.
		Mowatt of Ontario was the moving spirit, enunciating the Compact Theory of Confederation, and overseeing its articulation in the formal resolutions of the conference.
	www.upei.ca /~rneill/canechist/topic_19.html

	Distinct Society: Origins, Interpretations, Implications (BP408e)
		Ryan states that the Party’s primary objections were to changes in the balance of power between federal and provincial governments, limits imposed by the Charter on the powers of the National Assembly, and the amending formulas contained in the new Constitution; the absence of a specific recognition of Quebec’s distinct nature is not mentioned.
		The Liberal Party was victorious in the December 1985 election.
		The proposed reforms – the Charlottetown Accord – were soundly defeated in a national referendum.
	www.parl.gc.ca /information/library/prbpubs/bp408-e.htm

	Lynn Myers for Kitchener-Conestoga
		The term was applied in the post-Confederation period to the Liberal Party, which represented the same rural Protestant interests in Ontario and which included Brown himself as a prominent member.
		Various political parties are represented in the House of Commons, although some members may have no affiliation to an organized party.
		It indicates the quality of character which Brown thought necessary for members of his wing of the Reform party in the Province of Canada.
	www.votelynnmyers.com /FAQs.htm

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography
		Isolated from his party and stunned in March 1880 by the death of Reform veteran Luther Hamilton Holton* and the shooting of George Brown, Mackenzie was vulnerable to Blake’s demonstration of leadership on the debate over the publicly funded construction of the Pacific railway.
		These reform traditions helped sustain the intense resistance of Blake and his party in the 1880s to the Conservatives’ continuance of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the gerrymander of electoral boundaries, the electoral franchise act, and the National Policy on tariffs.
		The Reform — the Liberal — party was to his mind the carrier of significant social values, whether in power or in opposition.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBioPrintable.asp?BioId=41335

	Neal E. Travez's Personal Canada Canadian Ontario Ontarian Conservative Family Traditional Democratic Reform Social Fiscal Alliance Marriage Confederation Freedom Coalition Heritage Progressive Life Republican Political Moral Majority Website
		Though fiscal and democratic reforms are important, these seem to be limelight issues already being dealt with in the mainstream forum and media, while social reform is not.
		Bill C-250, the most recent attack on those three Pro-Canadian pillars, is a perfect example being thrown to the shadows on Sept. 17, 2003 by the governing Liberal Party and its political allies.
		Parties and Canadidates to back for freedom and democracy.
	www.geocities.com /n_e_travez

	Warsaw Voice - Pre-election Flirting Underway
		Solidarity-spawned parties, Wujec argues, would do best to band together under a single-party platform, but most right-wing parties fear the UW and blame it for all of the problems stemming from system transformations.
		Party deputies have often voted against the proposals of its coalition mates, the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD).
		UP leaders claim that they will be the only left-wing party to run individually in the next elections.
	www.warsawvoice.pl /archiwum.phtml/13161

	Historical Eras
		Breaking with his party, TR pursued a startling array of domestic reform legislation.
		A spirit of reform was evident in America during the first half of the 19th century, touching such areas as religion in a second Great Awakening, women’s issues, educational reform, a temperance movement, utopianism and abolitionism.
		A national reform movement known as Progressivism emerged and included advocates of woman’s suffrage, municipal reform, state reform, temperance, immigration reform and a host of social reforms.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/eras.html

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		The party is registered in CEC, grounds: MPs —George Gachechiladze, Givi Gigineishvili, Avtandil Geladze, an authorised representative in CEC- Zurab Mgaloblishvili, representatives in executive government: Nino Chkhobadze -a Minister of the Ministry of Environment Protection, Zurab Tavartkiladze -a deputy Minister.
		The party partially supports the present government course - foreign course is fully acceptable, the party does not agree with the home course.
		The party participated in 1995 parliamentary elections under the name of "Republicans", received 1.5% of votes, was represented by a majority MP.
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/election/georgia/geoparties.html

	One of the Greats: Sir Robert Bond presided over golden age: Memorial University's Archival Treasures
		Most of his supporters had deserted him, the Protestants becoming part of Thorburn's new Reform Party, which promised no coalition with the Roman Catholics, and the Roman Catholics forming their own party, the Liberals.
		By 1889, however, the Reform Party had fallen out of favour with the electorate.
		Shortly after the election Thorburn had a change of heart on his promise not to enter into a coalition with the Roman Catholic members of the assembly; in 1886 he invited several of them to join his cabinet and they accepted.
	www.heritage.nf.ca /cns_archives/47riggsoct07_1999.html

	Old Time Trains
		It supported the Reform Party in Canada West (formerly Upper Canada and now Ontario).
		Many were highly politically motivated and financed, being the sole source news they were an easy way to spread the "party line".
		Brown became a Member of Parliament in 1852, was a Father of Confederation (1867), and later became a Senator.
	www.trainweb.org /oldtimetrains/globetrain.html

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	Canada's Prime Ministers & Governors-General
		- Liberal Conservative (forerunner of Progressive Conservative Party, the party adopted the name "Progrssive Conservative" in 1942 after John Bracken, a member of the Progressive Party won the Conservative leadership)
		- Oversaw Criminal Code reforms from 1968 to 1972
	members.shaw.ca /kcic1/canpmgg.html

	cric.ca - Canada's Portal - Quick Guide
		Reform’s roots lay in the western autonomy movement: specifically, western alienation; neo-conservatism (related to the variant that captured the U.S. Republican Party in the 1980s); religion; and lastly, the desire (especially within Alberta) to play a larger role in the Canadian federation.
		They were not alone in rejecting the idea of Confederation; Howe’s Reformers in Nova Scotia argued that the "federalists" lacked a popular mandate to negotiate any political deal.
		In the 1993 federal election, the Bloc’s 54 seats made it the Official Opposition, while Reform’s 52 made it the third largest party in the House.
	www.cric.ca /en_html/guide/parties/parties.html

	Reform Party (pre-Confederation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Reform movement, sometimes referred to as the Reform Party, began in the 1830s as the movement in the English speaking parts of
		The Reformers were more a loose movement than a party.
		In Upper Canada ( Ontario), the Reform movement was formed in opposition to the Family Compact.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reform_Party_%28historic%29

	Politics
		Topics studied in depth include the British electoral system; proportional representation; pressure groups in the UK, the concept and various forms of democracy; political parties; devolution (theory of) and Wales and Scotland; citizenship; politics and rights; party systems; referendums; the reform of the House of Lords; arguments for and against the Euro; constitutional reform.
		The Electoral Reform Society is a membership organisation which campaigns for improvements in democracy, particularly through the use of better voting systems.
		The website includes sections on Parliamentary Reform: 1750-1832, Political Parties and Election Results: 1832-1951, Parliamentary Legislation: 1715-1948.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /REVpolitics.htm

	Princeton University Press 2004 Complete List Out of Print Books
		Democratic Reform in Yugoslavia: The Changing Role of the Party.
		GREGORY, P. Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America.
		CORWIN, E.S. Commercial Policy of New Jersey under the Confederation.
	www.pup.princeton.edu /complist/oops.html

	Reform Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Canada - Reform Party of Canada, Reform Party (pre-Confederation).
		Reform Party of the United States of America, formerly led by Ross Perot.
		United Kingdom - Reform Party active in the 19th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reform_Party

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