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The Senate of Canada is Canada's unelected upper chamber. It currently has three non-party parliamentary groups: the Independent Senators Group (ISG), the Canadian Senators Group (CSG), and the Progressive Senate Group (PSG). These three groups do not share a formal ideology, platform, or membership in any one political party; the caucuses ...
Vancouver. Vancouver is one of two major cities in Canada to have political parties at the municipal level, the other being Montreal. [6] Municipal politics in Vancouver were historically dominated by the centre-right Non-Partisan Association, a "free enterprise coalition" originally established to oppose the influence of the democratic ...
Liberal Party (1873–1874)[nb 4] Alexander Mackenzie — 2nd Ministry. 95 of 200 House seats (minority) Conservative Party. Sir John A. Macdonald. 3rd Canadian Parliament. Elected 1874. 5 sessions. Feb 21, 1874.
The Green Party retains leader Elizabeth May's seat for the third time; the seat of their second MP, Paul Manly, in Nanaimo—Ladysmith; and gain a seat in Fredericton. This is the first election for the People's Party of Canada, which Maxime Bernier founded in 2018 after having served as a Conservative MP since 2006 and briefly as an ...
The Conservative Party is political heir to a series of right-of-centre parties that have existed in Canada, beginning with the Upper Canada Tories of the nineteenth century. John A. Macdonald and George-Étienne Cartier later founded the Liberal-Conservative Party. The party became known simply as the Conservative Party after 1873, and the ...
The Liberal Party of Canada (LPC; Quebec French: Parti libéral du Canada, PLC) is a federal political party in Canada.The party espouses the principles of liberalism, [6] [7] [8] and generally sits at the centre [6] [9] [10] to centre-left [10] [11] of the Canadian political spectrum, with their main rival, the Conservative Party, positioned to their right and the New Democratic Party ...
Of the current first ministers, two (Danielle Smith of Alberta and Susan Holt of New Brunswick) are woman and three (P.J. Akeeagok of Nunavut, Wab Kinew of Manitoba, and R.J. Simpson of the Northwest Territories) are Indigenous. [note 2] Of the current first ministers, four are from Liberal parties, three are from Progressive Conservative ...
The New Democratic Party (NDP; French: Nouveau Parti démocratique; NPD) is a federal political party in Canada.Widely described as social democratic, [5] the party sits at the centre-left [10] to left-wing [17] of the Canadian political spectrum, [under discussion] with the party generally sitting to the left of the Liberal Party. [20]