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's agenda was profoundly influenced by its rejection of the dominant notion at the time that Canada was always divided between English and French Canada. The Reform party claimed that this thesis of two founding peoples was flawed and Preston Manning called for a New Canada with a new identity that would solve existing problems, and stated this in his...
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