Canadian Alliance

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Canadian Alliance
Alliance canadienne
Canadian Alliance.svg
founding March 27, 2000
fusion December 7, 2003
(merged into: Conservative Party )
Alignment Conservatism
Neoliberalism
Right-wing populism

The Canadian Alliance ( English Canadian Alliance ; French Alliance Canadienne ), formally Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance or Alliance réformiste-conservateur Canadienne , was a conservative political party in Canada . It existed from 2000 to 2003 and was the successor to the Reform Party of Canada . During this time it was the strongest opposition party in the lower house ("official opposition"). The alliance was formed with the aim of uniting the right-wing political spectrum in Canada. This succeeded in December 2003 when it merged with the Progressive Conservative Party and was absorbed into the Conservative Party .

history

The origin of the Canadian Alliance is the 1987 founded the Reform Party , the populist interests of Western Canada represented. Soon after its formation, the Reform Party, chaired by Preston Manning (son of longtime Prime Minister of Alberta, Ernest Manning ), moved far to the right . In the 1993 general election, she achieved a higher percentage of the vote than the progressive conservatives for the first time. The reform party was increasingly accused of being extremist and intolerant. Nevertheless, in 1997 it became the strongest opposition party.

Since the Reform Party was only represented in the west of the country and could never gain a foothold in the more liberal central and eastern provinces, Manning called for the conservative forces to join together to create a “United Alternative” strong enough to oust the Liberal Party from government . As a result of two party congresses, the Reform Party decided in January 2000 to dissolve itself and to re-establish it as the Canadian Alliance. The Alliance's party program was a mixture of positions of the Reform Party and the Progressive Conservatives.

In autumn 2000 the Liberal Party surprisingly announced a new election. The alliance was poorly prepared for this and was only able to win two seats in the province of Ontario outside of its homeland in western Canada . There were only marginal shifts in seats and the alliance became the strongest opposition party by a long way behind the Liberals. The previous chairman Stockwell Day had to resign, after the party conference in March 2002 Stephen Harper succeeded him.

Secret negotiations followed with the leadership of the progressive conservatives about a merger. Stephen Harper and Peter MacKay , the two party leaders, announced the upcoming merger on October 16, 2003. On December 5th the members of the alliance voted with 96% and on December 6th those of the progressive conservatives with 90% voted for the union. Two days later, the newly formed party was officially registered.

Election results

Results of the House of Commons elections :

choice seats
total 		candidates
data 		Weighted
seats 		be right proportion of
2000 298 298 66 3,276,929 25.49%

Party leader

Offshoots in the provinces

During its brief existence, the Canadian Alliance never really pursued the goal of establishing branches in the provinces or entering into formal alliances with existing provincial parties. The vast majority of Allianz supporters continued to support the respective offshoots of the progressive conservatives, while those in Saskatchewan continued to support the Saskatchewan Party .

Only in Alberta was an attempt made to found a party based on the policies of the Canadian Alliance. However, the Alberta Alliance , founded in 2002 , had no official ties with the party at the federal level. This attempt would have been unsuccessful, as most of the members of the Canadian Alliance in Alberta continued to support the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta , which ruled there . However, the Alberta Alliance appeared under the same colors as the federal party, and their logos bore a striking resemblance. The party continued to exist at the federal level after the merger.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Results of past general election - Elections Canada