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Anyone know why the provinces all still have the word "Progressive" in the name of their "Conservative" party? Wouldn't it be more effective, and better marketing, to present a unified front and have them all named Conservative Party of [province]? Anyone aware of any movement to change this? If not, im wondering why the provincial parties would object?

Posted: 06/ 18/ 06 7:05 pm Post subject:

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Posted: 06/ 18/ 06 7:30 pm Post subject:

I like Jim a lot too.

I'm hoping that if Tory doesn't win this next election that Jim, as the former Finance Minister ("The man who cut the GST!") will have another run at the leadership.
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Posted: 06/ 18/ 06 7:36 pm Post subject:

I would like to see the "new" Conservative party separate from any Provincial Parties. Our CPC is new and still young and needs 10 years to grow without being tied to any Provincial Parties.
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Posted: 06/ 18/ 06 7:39 pm Post subject:

Ontario Tory, Alberta Tory, NS Tory, etc...

Posted: 06/ 18/ 06 7:40 pm Post subject:

Flaherty is the real deal. He's just playing his role trying to look moderate.

Posted: 06/ 18/ 06 8:23 pm Post subject:

The Conservative Party of Canada was first governing party of Canada in 1867. It came to have provincial counterparts in the existing provinces at the time including Quebec.

Over the course of time the Conservatives nearly vanished at the provincial level in Quebec, Saskatchewan and BC.

In 1945 the Conservative Party changed its name at the federal level to Progressive Conservative Party at the insistence of newly elected Leader John Bracken. The Progressive Party, which Bracken had been involved with provincially, had all but died out by 1945. Most of its supporters had gone to the Liberals or participated in founding the CCF and Social Credit.

Over time, the provincial Conservative Parties changed their name to Progressive Conservative.

In 1987 the Reform Party was established with the significant policy input of Stephen Harper. Thanks to those policies, Reform won 52 seats in 1993 while the PC Party was reduced to 2 seats.

Reform changed its name to Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance in 2000 but quickly switched to Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance when the MSM began to call it CCRAP. Canadian Alliance (CA) became the accepted short form. The PC's complained about use of the word Conservative.

In 2003 the CA and PCs united to form the Conservative Party of Canada.

In BC, the provoncial Cpnservatives have dropped the word Progressive from their name. The BC Conservatives are not major players in BC politics at this time.

In Saskatchewan, the PCs came back to life in the 1970s and even won power for two terms (1982, 1986 until being dropped back to opposition status in 1991 and then third party status in 1995. The PC Party of Saskatchhewan was mothballed in order to form the Saskatchwan Party in union with dissident Liberals. The Saskatchwan Party's failure to dislodge the NDP provincial government after two elections has some provincial conservatives thinking it is time to bring back a PC or Conservative Party in Saskatchewan.

In Quebec, there was a brief surge of interest in a provincial PC Party when disaffected conservative voters tired of the PQ and Robert Bourrassa Liberals began to swing to its support in the early 1980s. It was stabbed in the back by Brian Mulroney before the 1985 provincial election which the Liberals won.

I have seen posters on FD who say they have reserved the Quebec Conservative Party name. Action Democratic led by Mario Dumont appears to be the currrent default choice for conservatives in Quebec at the provincial level so I wich the QCP all the best.

Over time, the names of the relevant provincial parties will likely be changed.
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Posted: 06/ 18/ 06 8:28 pm Post subject:

Yes the BC Conservatives are rather moribund.

But there may be some changes in the works, who knows?
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Posted: 06/ 18/ 06 8:31 pm Post subject:

Posted: 06/ 18/ 06 9:57 pm Post subject:

Uh Progressive Conservative means Socialist Conservative which means some kind of moderate or Liberal.

But since the political spectrum has moved left-ward for decades today's moderate was yesteryear's socialist.
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