The Reform Party of Canada (French: ''Parti réformiste du Canada'') was a Canadian federal political party that existed from 1987 to 2000. It was originally founded as a Western Canada-based protest party, but attempted to expand eastward in the 1990s. It viewed itself as a conservative and populist party. The party became the Canadian Alliance in 2000, and merged with the PC party in 2003 to form the Conservative Party of Canada, which currently...
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The Reform Party of Canada (French: ''Parti réformiste du Canada'') was a Canadian federal political party that existed from 1987 to 2000. It was originally founded as a Western Canada-based protest party, but attempted to expand eastward in the 1990s. It viewed itself as a conservative and populist party. The party became the Canadian Alliance in 2000, and merged with the PC party in 2003 to form the Conservative Party of Canada, which currently forms the Government of Canada. During its time on the Canadian political scene, Reform had only one leader, Preston Manning, the son of former Alberta Premier Ernest Manning.
The Reform Party was seen by a number of politicians and media outlets as being intolerant after a number of Reform Members of Parliament, candidates, convention delegates, and supporters made remarks, decisions, and policies that were considered xenophobic, homophobic, and sexist. The Reform Party never explicitly supported intolerance and Manning claimed that he never...
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