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Main federal political parties
Nouveau Parti démocratique (New Democratic Party)
(www.ndp.ca)
Leader: Jack Layton (MP for Toronto-Danforth, ON)
Ideology: Social-democratic left
Parliamentary membership:
| Quebec | Canada as a whole | |
|---|---|---|
| House of Commons | 0 | 29 |
| Senate | 0 | 0 |
History:
Established in 1961 during the Ottawa Convention, the NDP inherited from Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), which was established during the Calgary Convention in 1932.
| Former Leaders: | James Shaver Woodsworth 1932-1940 |
| Major James William Coldwell 1940-1960 | |
| Hazen Robert Argue 1960-1961 | |
| Thomas Clement "Tommy" Douglas 1961-1971 | |
| David Lewis 1971-1974 | |
| John Edward "Ed" Broadbent 1974-1989 | |
| Audrey Marlene McLoughlin 1989-1995 | |
| Alexa McDonough 1995-2002 | |
| Jack Layton 2002-____ |
Bloc Québécois (Quebec's Block)
(www.blocquebecois.org)
Leader: Gilles Duceppe (MP for Laurier—Sainte-Marie, QC)
Ideology: Social-democratic left and sovereigntist
Parliamentary membership:
| Quebec | Canada as a whole | |
|---|---|---|
| House of Commons | 51 | 51 |
| Senate | 0 | 0 |
History:
Born of the alliance of dissident Conservative and Liberal MPs on July, 1990, the BQ was founded officially in 1991 during the Tracy Convention.
| Former Leaders: | Lucien Bouchard 1990-1996 |
| Michel Gauthier 1996-1997 | |
| Gilles Duceppe 1997-____ |
Parti libéral du Canada (Liberal Party of Canada)
(www.liberal.ca)
Leader: Stéphane Dion (MP for Saint-Laurent&mbash;Cartierville, QC)
Ideology: Liberal right
Parliamentary membership:
| Quebec | Canada as a whole | |
|---|---|---|
| House of Commons | 13 | 102 |
| Senate | 16 | 64 |
History:
Heir of the union of the Clear grits, radical branch of the Reformist Party in Upper Canada, and the Rouges, the Liberals of Lower Canada (Baldwin-La Fontaine agreement) in 1848, the Liberal Party of Canada took his current shape by 1880.
| Former Leaders: | Alexander Mackenzie 1867-1880 |
| Edward Blake 1880-1896 | |
| Wilfrid Laurier 1896-1919 | |
| Daniel Duncan Mckenzie (Parliamentary Leader) February-August 1919 | |
| William Lyon Mackenzie King 1919-1948 | |
| Louis Stephen Saint-Laurent 1948-1958 | |
| Lester Bowles Pearson 1958-1968 | |
| Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1968-1984 | |
| John Napier Turner 1984-1990 | |
| Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien 1990-2003 | |
| Paul Edgar Philippe Martin 2003-2006 | |
| Bill Graham (Parliamentary Leader) 2006 | |
| Stéphane Dion 2006-____ |
Parti conservateur du Canada (Conservative Party of Canada)
(www.conservateur.ca)
Leader: Stephen Joseph Harper (MP for Calgary-Sud-Ouest, Alberta)
Ideology: Conservative right
Parliamentary membership:
| Quebec | Canada as a whole | |
|---|---|---|
| House of Commons | 10 | 124 |
| Senate | 4 | 23 |
History:
The Parti conservateur du Canada was founded on December, 2003, as a result of the merger of the Parti progressiste-conservateur du Canada and the Alliance réformiste-conservatrice canadienne.
The creation of the Parti progressiste-conservateur du Canada go back up to the union of the Moderate Reformists, the Conservatives and the Bleus (MacDonald-Cartier agreement) in 1854. It was known under the name of Parti libéral-conservateur until 1896, then of Parti conservateur until 1942.
As for the Canadian Alliance, it arises from Reform Party, which was founded in 1988 during the Calgary Convention. However, given the impossibility for this party, essentially representative of Western Canada, to make a breakthrough in Ontario and somewhere else in Canada, the Reform Party sank itself in March, 2000 for the benefit of the Canadian Alliance, consisted mainly of Reformers, but also provincial conservatives and of the other activists of the canadian right.
| Former Leaders: | |
| Parti réformiste/Alliance canadienne | Ernest Preston Manning 1988-2000 |
| Deborah C. Grey (Parliamentary Leader) April-June 2000 | |
| Stockwell Burt Day 2000-2001 | |
| John Douglas Reynolds (Parliamentary Leader) December 2001-March 2002 | |
| Stephen Joseph Harper 2002-2004 | |
| Parti progressiste-conservateur | John Alexander Macdonald 1867-1891 |
| John Joseph Caldwell Abbott 1891-1892 | |
| John Sparrow David Thompson 1892-1894 | |
| Mackenzie Bowell 1894-1896 | |
| Charles Tupper 1896-1901 | |
| Robert Laird Borden 1901-1920 | |
| Arthur Meighen 1920-1926 | |
| Hugh Guthrie (Parliamentary Leader) 1926-1927 | |
| Richard Bedford Bennett 1927-1938 | |
| Robert James Manion 1938-1940 | |
| Richard Burpee Hanson (Parliamentary Leader) 1940-1941 | |
| Arthur Meighen 1941-1942 | |
| John Bracken 1942-1948 | |
| George Alexander Drew 1948-1956 | |
| John George Diefenbaker 1956-1967 | |
| Robert Lorne Stanfield 1967-1976 | |
| Charles Joseph "Joe" Clark 1976-1983 | |
| Erik Nielsen (Parliamentary Leader) 1983 | |
| Martin Brian Mulroney 1983-1993 | |
| A. Kim Campbell 1993 | |
| Jean J. Charest 1993-1998 | |
| Elsie Eleanore Wayne (Parliamentary Leader) 1998 | |
| Charles Joseph "Joe" Clark 1998-2003 | |
| Peter Gordon MacKay 2003-2004 | |
| Grant Hill (Parliamentary Leader) January-March 2004 | |
| Stephen Joseph Harper 2004-____ |
Other authorized federal political parties
Animal Alliance Environment Voters Party of Canada
(www.environmentvoters.org)
Le Animal Alliance Environment Voters Party of Canada a été fondé en 2005. Il propose l'implantation de politiques publiques favorisant la protection des animaux.
Leader: Liz White
Ideology: Ecologist left
Parliamentary membership:
| Quebec | Canada as a whole | |
|---|---|---|
| House of Commons | 0 | 0 |
| Senate | 0 | 0 |
First Peoples National Party of Canada
(www.fpnpoc.ca)
Le First Peoples National Party of Canada a été fondé en 2005. Il vise la représentation des intérêts des premières nations (amérindiens, inuit et métis).
Leader: Barbara Wardlaw
Ideology: left
Parliamentary membership:
| Quebec | Canada as a whole | |
|---|---|---|
| House of Commons | 0 | 0 |
| Senate | 0 | 0 |
Parti action canadienne (Canadian Action Party)
(www.canadianactionparty.ca)
Le Parti action canadienne a été fondé en 1997. Il milite en faveur d'une réforme du système bancaire et monétaire du Canada.
Leader: Connie Fogal
Ideology: Populist right
Parliamentary membership:
| Quebec | Canada as a whole | |
|---|---|---|
| House of Commons | 0 | 0 |
| Senate | 0 | 0 |
Parti communiste du Canada (Communist Party of Canada)
(www.communist-party.ca)
Le Parti communiste du Canada a été fondé en 1921. Il propose de faire du Canada un État communiste.
Leader: Miguel Figueroa
Ideology: Communist left
Parliamentary membership:
| Quebec | Canada as a whole | |
|---|---|---|
| House of Commons | 0 | 0 |
| Senate | 0 | 0 |
Parti de l'héritage chrétien du Canada (Christian Heritage Party of Canada)
(www.chp.ca)
Le Parti de l'héritage chrétien du Canada a été fondé en 1988. Il prône un gouvernement respectant les enseignements de Dieu et de la Bible.
Leader: Ronald O. Gray
Ideology: Christian right
Parliamentary membership:
| Quebec | Canada as a whole | |
|---|---|---|
| House of Commons | 0 | 0 |
| Senate | 0 | 0 |
Parti libertarien (Libertatrian Party)
(www.libertarian.ca)
Le Parti libertarien a été fondé en 1971. Il milite en faveur d'une réduction majeure du rôle de l'État dans l'économie et dans la vie des citoyens.
Leader: Jean-Serge Brisson
Ideology: Libertarian right
Parliamentary membership:
| Quebec | Canada as a whole | |
|---|---|---|
| House of Commons | 0 | 0 |
| Senate | 0 | 0 |
Parti marijuana (Marijuana Party)
(www.partimarijuana.com)
Le Parti marijuana a été fondé en 2000 par les dirigeants du Bloc-Pot. Il milite en faveur de la légalisation de la marijuana.
Leader: Blair T. Longley
Ideology: Libertarian left
Parliamentary membership:
| Quebec | Canada as a whole | |
|---|---|---|
| House of Commons | 0 | 0 |
| Senate | 0 | 0 |
Parti marxiste-léniniste du Canada (Marxist Leninist Party of Canada)
(www.cpcml.ca)
Le Parti marxiste-léniniste du Canada a été fondé en 1970. Il propose de faire du Canada un État communiste.
Leader: Sandra L. Smith
Ideology: Communist left
Parliamentary membership:
| Quebec | Canada as a whole | |
|---|---|---|
| House of Commons | 0 | 0 |
| Senate | 0 | 0 |
Parti progressiste canadien (Progressive Canadian Party)
(www.pcparty.org)
Le Parti progressiste canadien a été fondé en mars 2004 par d'anciens militants du Parti progressiste-conservateur qui étaient en désaccord avec la fusion du parti avec l'Alliance canadienne.
Leader: Tracy Parsons
Ideology: Moderate right
Parliamentary membership:
| Quebec | Canada as a whole | |
|---|---|---|
| House of Commons | 0 | 0 |
| Senate | 0 | 0 |
Parti vert du Canada (Green Party of Canada)
(www.green.ca)
Le Parti vert du Canada a été fondé en 1983. Il propose l'implantation de politiques publiques pro-environnementales.
Leader: Jim Harris
Ideology: Ecologist centrist
Parliamentary membership:
| Quebec | Canada as a whole | |
|---|---|---|
| House of Commons | 0 | 0 |
| Senate | 0 | 0 |
Western Block Party
(www.westernblockparty.com)
Le Western Block Party a été fondé en 2005. Il prône l'accession à la souveraineté des quatre provinces de l'Ouest (Alberta, Colombie-Britannique, Manitoba et Saskatchewan).
Leader: Douglas Christie
Ideology: Conservative right and sovereigntist
Parliamentary membership:
| Quebec | Canada as a whole | |
|---|---|---|
| House of Commons | 0 | 0 |
| Senate | 0 | 0 |
Last update: March 21, 2006