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	Reform Party of Canada
		The Reform Party's major preoccupations, however, were with decentralizing and otherwise reducing the size, scope and cost of government, primarily by cuts to social welfare and cultural support programs (including bilingualism and multiculturalism) and firm opposition to Québec's demands for special status within Confederation.
		Reform failed to win a seat in the 1988 federal election, but its percentage of the electoral vote was encouraging, especially in Alberta.
		Reform's public appeal was further blunted by the adoption of fiscally conservative policies by the governing Liberals after 1993, a recovery in the Canadian economy, and a decline in public concern over constitutional issues following Québec's sovereignty referendum in 1995.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&TCE_Version=A&ArticleId=A0006737&mState=1 (825 words)

	Reform Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		United States - Reform Party of the United States of America, founded by Ross Perot.
		United States - American Reform Party, founded by former members of the Reform Party of the United States of America.
		Canada - Reform Party of Canada, Reform Party (pre-Confederation), Manitoba Reform Party.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reform_Party (130 words)

	Reform Party of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The party was the brainchild of a group of discontented Western interest groups who were upset with the PC government and the lack of a voice for Western concerns at the national level.
		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).
		While the Reform Party had similar views to APEC's on official bilingualism and the role of Quebec in the confederation, the reasons for the racist Heritage Front's endorsement were less direct.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reform_Party_of_Canada (1741 words)

	BCPSA Paper - Barney
		The Reform party's low regard for the qualitative requirements of sound democratic practice is evident in the cavalier manner in which it manipulates the actual results of its tele-populist schemes.
		Conversely, the Reform party envisions itself as the "representative of the unrepresented", the champion of the silent majority in the face of a tyranny of the minorities.59 Ironically, it is at this point that the Reform party's special interest in contracting the public sphere of democratic decision-making becomes apparent.
		Reform's rhetorical commitment to populism is a veneer which covers their fervent ideological distaste for those who believe that democracy is more than merely the sum of capitalism and the periodic opportunity to vote.
	www.sfu.ca /igs/Barney.html (5304 words)

	Reform Party of Canada: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: )
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/re/reform_party_of_canada.htm (2984 words)

	Preston Manning and the Reform Party
		Although the Social Credit Party called for a complete reform of the capitalist system and the CCF originally called for its abolition and replacement by socialism, the one thing the two movements had in common was their populist roots.
		The Reform Party believes that cultural development and preservation ought to be the responsibility of individuals, groups, and, if necessary in certain cases (for example, in the case of Quebec and Canadian aboriginals), of provincial and local governments.
		To members of ethnic minorities [I say] that the Reform Party of Canada is the only federal party that stands for abandoning the definition of Canada as an "equal partnership between the French and the English"--a definition that relegates you to the status of second-class citizens.
	www.ndsu.nodak.edu /instruct/isern/382/reform.htm (1106 words)

	Canadian Alliance - Encyclopedia.com
		Canadian Alliance former Canadian political party that had its origins in the Reform party of Canada, which was founded in 1987 in Winnipeg, Man., as a W Canada-based conservative alternative to the Progressive Conservative party.
		The Reform party's formation was spurred in part by reaction against Prime Minister Brian Mulroney 's attempts to negotiate a special status for Quebec within the Canadian confederation (see also Meech Lake Accord).
		Although the Alliance was the largest opposition party by far in the 2000 elections, a conservative coalition failed to coalesce, limiting the number of seats the Alliance won to 66.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-CanadAlli.html (1125 words)

	Conservative Party of Canada - SourceWatch
		Fullowing the latest federal election (June 2004), the CPC is the official opposition to the governing populistic Liberal Party of Canada.
		The original 19th-century Conservative Party in Canada became the 20th-century Progressive Conservative Party of Canada though a merger with the Progressives.
		Federally, from 1993 to 2003 the center-right was "split" between Clark's Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and Manning's Reform Party of Canada, the latter party later became the Canadian Alliance under Stephen Harper, the currect leader of the CPC.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Conservative_Party_of_Canada (679 words)

	Dr. Lupul blasts Reform Party's anti-multiculturalism platform (05/15/94)
		One of the "four great themes" on which they campaigned in 1993 was "the need to move beyond the old line parties," definition of Canada as a partnership of cultural and linguistic groups, to a new vision of Canada as a partnership of equal provinces and citizens.
		The Reform Party would focus federal government activities on enhancing the citizenship of all Canadians regardless of race, language or culture.
		The next point suggested that commentators are ignoring the fact that the Reform attack on multiculturalism could very well be constituted as a new manifestation of the nativism that "periodically raises its head" in Canada, particularly in times of crisis.
	www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1994/209415.shtml (1515 words)

	Canada's Reform Party reborn as the Canadian Alliance Makeover aimed at securing big business support
		The Conservative (Tory) Party, Canada's other traditional ruling party, were all but destroyed in 1993, when after nine years in office under Brian Mulroney they were reduced to just two seats in the House of Commons.
		Although the Conservatives regained recognition as an official party in the lower house of parliament after the 1997 election, they remain the fifth largest party in the House and are electorally uncompetitive in large parts of the country.
		While painting Reform as the voice of extremism, the Liberals have repeatedly adopted Reform policies, including dramatically slashing social spending in the name of eliminating the deficit, cutting taxes, restricting refugees' rights, amending the Young Offenders' Act, and supporting the partitioning of Quebec in the event of secession.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/apr2000/can-a04_prn.shtml (1421 words)

	Liberal Party - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Liberal Party (Site not responding. Last check: )
		British political party, the successor to the Whig Party, with an ideology of liberalism.
		The party's left, composed mainly of working-class Radicals and led by Charles Bradlaugh (a lawyer's clerk) and Joseph Chamberlain (a wealthy manufacturer), repudiated laissez faire and inclined towards republicanism, but in 1886 the Liberals were split over the policy of home rule for Ireland, and many became Liberal Unionists or joined the Conservatives.
		After the 1987 general election, Steel suggested a merger of the Liberal Party and the SDP, and the SLD was formed on 3 March 1988, with Paddy Ashdown elected leader in July of that year.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Liberal+Party (879 words)

	Of Passionate Intensity: Right-Wing Populism and the Reform Party of Canada. by Alvin Finkle (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Party voters meanwhile tend to 'have strong assimilationist and anti-pluralist views regarding immigration, to believe that society is too lenient with criminals, and to be strongly opposed to the notion of ''distinct society status'' for Quebec' (207).
		Harrison deals with Reform in the context of 'populist' parties, but what he says of the make-up of the party (mainly older middle-class males) and its economic policy (it has no quarrel with any fraction of capital) makes one wonder if he is not barking up the wrong tree.
		He successfully demonstrates that the party formed by these questionable populists was 'as much a defensive reaction to the perceived gains of the left as it was an attempt to institute a new political regime' (113).
	www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/773/intensity17.html (858 words)

	Canadian Conservative Forum - Requested Essay
		The Reform Party needs to develop a more consistent set of social policies if it is to have as much influence in that field as it already has exercised on fiscal and constitutional policy.
		Reform's success in bringing about fiscal, constitutional, and democratic change is due largely to the coherence of the party's policies in these fields.
		Reform's popular support is essentially what it was in the summer of 1991, when the party commissioned its first national poll: dominant in British Columbia and Alberta, competitive in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, marginal in Ontario, and irrelevant in Quebec and Atlantic Canada.
	www.conservativeforum.org /EssaysForm.asp?ID=6073 (1292 words)

	Party Politics Vol. 5, Issue 3, p. 317 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Reform Party of Canada's use and promotion of direct democracy is one of more than a dozen cases explored at the 1997 ECPR workshop on Political Parties and Plebiscitary Politics.
		On first encounter, Reform's interest in direct democracy might be accounted for in terms of their members' desire to democratize Canadian public life.
		Insofar as the experience of the Reform Party of Canada testifies to links between plebiscitarianism and the socio-political project of the new right, we believe it holds instructive lessons for those wishing to explain the appeal of direct democracy to right-populist parties-- and voters-- in many liberal democracies.
	www.partypolitics.org /volume05/v05i3p317.htm (306 words)

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		Overcoming years of negativity, the Canadian Alliance (which had emerged out of the Reform Party of Canada in 1998-2000), and the federal Progressive Conservative party agreed to unite themselves (pending the approval of their memberships by December 12, 2003), as the Conservative Party of Canada (the former name of the Progressive Conservatives from decades ago).
		The Reform Party of Canada was comparatively far more credible and attracted about a fifth of the nation-wide vote in federal elections in 1993 and 1997.
		Although the Reform Party was even more pro-American than Mulroney, earlier proposals for a Canada-U.S. Free Trade deal (Mulroney's major accomplishment) had been, historically- speaking, strenuously opposed by more traditional conservatives in Canada, who had looked to Britain.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/1003/1003regimechange.txt (1106 words)

	SIRC Report - Chapter 7 - Reform Party
		Reform Party (RP) officials had already been at work in Ontario to raise public interest in the Party and they were setting up interim riding associations.
		HQ may wish to consider the feasibility of debriefing the leader of the Reform Party of the Service's interest in individual(s) who support the White Supremacist movement that may have connections to the Reform Party but at the same time assure the leader that we are not/not investigating the Party.
		Reform Party officials point to Andrus as one of those who may have been involved in a campaign to discredit the Reform Party, possibly by using the Heritage Front.
	www.zundelsite.org /english/sirc/report/chapter07.html (18645 words)

	Hon. Preston Manning: Founder of the Reform Party of Canada
		He founded two new political parties — the Reform Party of Canada and the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance — both of which became the official Opposition in the Canadian Parliament.
		Those of us who are inspired by a democratic passion must scout the heartland and frontiers of democracy to discover the causes of its decline and ways to improve and secure its vitality.
		With the dangers and opportunities that lie beyond this vast frontier, whether it is with climate change or the genetic revolution, it is clear that Canada must take steps to establish more consistent and meaningful dialogue between the scientific and political communities.
	www.speakers.ca /manning_preston.aspx (983 words)

	Chapter 19: Crown Copyright and Copyright Reform in Canada - Elizabeth F. Judge
		Canada’s conclusion thus far has been that Crown copyright must be retained in order to ensure accuracy and integrity of government materials.
		The chapter recommends that Crown copyright in Canada should not apply to public legal information because those works are produced with the obligation to make them available for the purposes of public access and notice of the law.
		Professor Judge is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and is admitted to the Bars of the State of California and the District of Columbia.
	209.171.61.222 /PublicInterest/three_5_judge.htm (2556 words)

	Reform party, in Canada
		Reform party, in Canada, political party founded in 1987 in Winnipeg, Man., as a W Canada–based conservative alternative to the
		Fiscally conservative and strongly in favor of tax cuts, the party is also strongly federalist.
		In the 1997 elections Reform won 60 seats, becoming the largest opposition party in Parliament, and in 1999 it sponsored the United Alternative conference in an attempt to “unite the right”; against the Liberal party prior to the next election.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/history/A0841407.html (142 words)

	Elections Canada On-Line \| Electoral Districts
		Jake Hoeppner (Reform Party of Canada) excluded from the Reform caucus on July 27, 1999.
		Marcel Proulx (Liberal Party of Canada) elected at the by-election of November 15, 1999.
		Jack Ramsay (Reform Party of Canada) excluded from the Reform caucus on November 26, 1999.
	www.elections.ca /content.asp?section=cir&document=explan_1997&dir=dis&lang=e (493 words)

	Reform party, in Canada
		Reform party, in Canada, political party founded in 1987 in Winnipeg, Man., as a W Canada–based conservative alternative to the
		In the 1997 elections Reform won 60 seats, becoming the largest opposition party in Parliament, and in 1999 it sponsored the United Alternative conference in an attempt to “unite the right”; against the Liberal party prior to the next election.
		The battle for the right: Canada.(efforts to unite the political right in Canada generally have failed, as the Conservatives and the......
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0841407.html (253 words)

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