Refine your search Tiles List. Political Affiliation All All. Gender All All. Last Name All All. The Right Honourable. The Honourable. Justin Liberal April 15, Trudeau, Right Hon. April 15, Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
O'Toole, Hon. August 24, October 21, Singh, Jagmeet. February 27, Leader of the Government in the House of Commons. Holland, Hon. October 26, September 20, By the s, most Socred supporters had migrated to other parties, and what remained of the old Social Credit organizations were quietly dismantled or dissolved.
An intentionally disorganized, philosophically vague movement, the Canadian Progressives were a loose coalition of angry farmers in the s who formed a number of short-lived political parties to protest the changing economic circumstances of their era. From to they were organized into a single national movement known as the National Progressive Party. The Progressives never really had a clear plan on how to govern or what to do with power, however, and they declined as quickly as they had risen.
During the Great Depression , much of their voting base migrated to parties that offered more ideological solutions to economic complaints — either Social Credit on the right, or the socialists on the left. In early Canadian history, the political parties found in the Canadian provinces matched closely with the parties seen in Ottawa. Which is to say, most provincial governments operated under a two-party system divided between the Liberals on one side and the Conservatives on the other and the NDP in third place.
Canada's political parties can't quite seem to agree how party leaders should be elected, and every party has used a variety of different systems to pick them over the years — and the experiments will likely continue for many more years to come. At one time, delegated conventions were the norm, where party members elected delegates who traveled to a convention and elected the leader in person. Nowadays, one-member-one-vote elections are more common, where every single member can vote online or through the mail.
Though even then, things will be further complicated by the sort of electoral system the party uses to count the votes, and whether there will be any weighting of the provinces, and so on. One of the more controversial phenomena in modern Canadian politics are so-called "instant members" of political parties, who join a party briefly to vote for a single candidate then abandon it.
This is a very common occurrence during internal party elections to pick a new leader or a candidate for a local office like member of parliament. In recent years, a common stereotype is that "instant members" are often recruited by candidates from ethnic or religious communities to vote as a block.
MP Election signs in Ottawa during the Canadian general election. All Canadian political parties use different colors for their propaganda at election time.
Minor parties often use purple and the Greens, unsurprisingly, use green. Next Chapter. Bennett Louis St. Canadian Political Parties. How Canadian Political Parties Work Political parties hold a great deal of power in the Canadian system of government. Alberta Premier Rachel Notley b. Current Canadian Party Leaders. Name Changes In the midth century, Canada's conservatives belonged to what was called the Liberal-Conservative Party , and then just the Conservative Party from Reform Leaders Political activist Preston Manning right, b.
Bloc Bosses Since its founding, the Bloc has basically been led by only two men, Lucien Bouchard left, b. The Bloc Quebecois As we discuss in more detail in the Quebec chapter, one of the biggest issues in contemporary Canadian politics is whether or not the French-speaking province of Quebec should separate from Canada and form its own country.
Canadian Communism. Fringe Parties Beyond the three major parties and the two smaller ones, Canada has over a dozen other legally registered parties that are all quite unpopular and generally obscure. Forty-Third General Election Official Voting Results, Elections Canada Independents Technically, the most successful political movement outside of the mainstream parties comes from politicians who belong to no party at all. Dead Political Parties As you may have noticed from some of the history above, Canadian politics can be fairly volatile, with parties rising and falling with great speed.
The Progressives An intentionally disorganized, philosophically vague movement, the Canadian Progressives were a loose coalition of angry farmers in the s who formed a number of short-lived political parties to protest the changing economic circumstances of their era.
Saskatchewan Party President James Thorsteinson b. Provincial Parties In early Canadian history, the political parties found in the Canadian provinces matched closely with the parties seen in Ottawa. In British Columbia , the dominant parties are the B. NDP and the B.
Liberals have enjoyed the support of a voter base that is generally more conservative than that of other Liberal parties in Canada.
The B. The Alberta party system has realigned dramatically in recent years — the current system pits the ruling United Conservative Party of Alberta , which was formed in by merging the moderate Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta and the more ideological Wildrose Party , against the Alberta NDP.
Saskatchewan is ruled by the Saskatchewan Party , which is a coalition of Liberal and Conservative supporters, but is generally considered broadly conservative. All have run the government at some point over the last 30 years.
Quebec has a very unique party system completely unlike any other province. Currently, the province is ruled by the Coalition Avenir Quebec CAQ , which is usually considered centre-right and populist-nationalist. Until the late s, Quebec also had a strong conservative party known as the Union Nationale , or National Union. Newfoundland has an ordinary two-party system between Progressive Conservatives and Liberals.
The PEI Green Party staged an upset in the election and became the party with the second-most seats in the legislature. The leader of the opposition party with the most seats is called the leader of the Opposition. In Canadian federal elections , voters choose the candidate they wish to represent their riding. The party with the most elected candidates forms the government.
Its leader becomes prime minister. The leader of the Opposition is afforded the same salary as a cabinet minister. They also live in an official residence, Stornoway. The other parties that won even fewer votes are simply referred to as the opposition.
They ensure that all elected voices are heard in debates; as well as in the drafting of bills, so that they may be as effective as possible when they become law.
See Act Statute. When considering new legislation or in times of emergency, the prime minister often consults with opposition leaders to brief them on important matters, including upcoming government actions. Opposition parties may sometimes co-operate with each other and with the government. But their primary concern always remains their parliamentary and political goals.
The leader of the Opposition and other opposition party leaders are allowed to ask the first questions in the daily question period. To focus their criticism and suggestions, each opposition party creates a shadow cabinet comprised of opposition MPs.
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