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1998: Alex Cullen, Ontario MPP, left the Ontario Liberal Party to sit as an independent, then joined the Ontario New Democratic Party eight days later. 1998: Buckley Belanger, Saskatchewan MLA, resigned as Liberal Party of Saskatchewan MLA to run for the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party. He won re-election as a New Democrat with the second ...
Pages in category "Leaders of the Liberal Party of Canada" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
He led the Liberal Party in parliament, though he was never the leader or interim leader of the Liberal Party as a whole. 3 After the defeat of the Liberals by the Conservatives of Stephen Harper in the 2006 Canadian federal election, held on January 26, Paul Martin announced in the early hours of January 27, 2006 his intention to resign the ...
John Gilbert Layton was born on July 18, 1950 in Montreal, Quebec, [3] to parents Doris Elizabeth (née Steeves), and Progressive Conservative MP Robert Layton.He was the maternal great-grandnephew of William Steeves, a Father of Confederation, and his grandfather, Gilbert Layton, had served as a minister without portfolio to the government of Quebec's Union Nationale under Premier Maurice ...
A former leader in Canadian politics remarked on how the 2010s and the 2020s have shown staggering defeats for ... serving as the Liberal Party of Canada and opposition leader in his time, but has ...
Former Canadian finance minister Chrystia Freeland on Friday announced that she would take part in the contest to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as leader of the ruling Liberal Party.
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 ...
The 2009 Liberal leadership election was the last one in which the leader was chosen by delegates. Future leadership elections were to be conducted according to a weighted one member, one vote system in which all party members could cast ballots but in which they would be counted so that each riding had equal weight. This system, however, has ...