Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (French Parti progressiste - conservateur de l' Ontario), also known as the Ontario PC Party, is a conservative political party in the Canadian province of Ontario. The party is ideologically oriented similarly as the Conservative Party of Canada but the two parties are organizationally independent. It is however often the case that politicians are members of both the provincial and the federal party. Since the elections in October 2011 put the Conservatives 37 of 107 deputies in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

History

The Conservative Party was created out of the liberal-conservative coalition of the province of Canada, which was led from 1854 by John A. Macdonald and George -Étienne Cartier. This resulted in 1867, the Conservative Party of Ontario, led by John Sandfield Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of the new province. After the electoral defeat of 1871, the Catholic and non-English -born voters turned away from the party, which was increasingly dependent on the Orange Order in the sequence. The Conservatives opposed the government funding of Catholic schools, to language rights of Franco- Ontarians and against excessive immigration. 1893 Party member George Ryerson was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

After 33 years in opposition, the Conservatives presented with James Whitney again the Prime Minister, who pursued a progressive course. His government established the electricity company, Ontario Hydro, but also issued the controversial regulation 17, in French strongly limited the school ( after protests, the decision was eventually reversed ). In 1919 the Conservatives lost against the United Farmers of Ontario, but were in 1923 again form the government. In 1934, she suffered against the Ontario Liberal Party is a heavy election defeat, as the government had proved unable to cope with the social consequences of the world economic crisis.

In 1942 it was renamed the party in Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Due to intra-party infighting of the Liberals, the Conservatives were again in 1943, voters strongest party and presented continuously until 1985 the government. Under John Robarts, the party began increasingly to use for civil rights, the negative attitude towards the French-speaking minority was abandoned. The longest reigning Conservative Prime Minister was Bill Davis, who for 14 years headed the government from 1971. Due to the concentration of power and dominance, the party was also known as Big Blue Machine ( " Big Blue Machine" ). Under Davie, the party moved more towards the center and represented sometimes even more liberal positions than the Ontario Liberal Party.

After Davis's resignation in 1985, his successor Frank Miller directed the party again more to the right, but lost after just four months, a vote of no confidence. The Conservatives were the next ten years in opposition. First, allowing the Liberals, the government, from 1990, the Ontario New Democratic Party. The Progressive Conservative Party slipped in favor of the voters from the third.

In the elections in 1995 succeeded Mike Harris, to make the party with a neo-conservative program back to voters strongest party. His clear election victory is variously referred to as Common Sense Revolution ( "revolution of common sense "). Harris ' reign was accompanied by numerous financial problems, strikes and protests. In 2002, he resigned and left Ernie Eves, the Office of the Prime Minister, who lost significantly in the next year's elections.

Election results

Conservative Party of Ontario

Party chairman

P = Prime Minister

Conservative Party of Canada West

  • John A. Macdonald (1854-1857) P
  • John Sandfield Macdonald (1862-1864)

Conservative Party of Ontario

  • John Sandfield Macdonald (1867-1871) P
  • Matthew Crooks Cameron (1871-1878)
  • William Ralph Meredith (1879-1894)
  • George Frederick Marter (1894-1896)
  • James Whitney (1896-1904) P
  • William Hearst (1914-1919) P
  • Howard Ferguson (1919-1930) P
  • George Stewart Henry (1930-1936) P
  • William Earl Rowe (1936-1938)
  • George Drew (1938-1942)

Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

  • George Drew (1942-1948) P
  • Thomas Kennedy (1948-1949) P
  • Leslie Frost (1949-1961) P
  • John Robarts (1961-1971) P
  • Bill Davis (1971-1985) P
  • Frank Miller (1985-1986) P
  • Larry Grossman (1986-1987)
  • Andy Brandt (1987-1990)
  • Mike Harris (1990-2002) P
  • Ernie Eves (2002-2004) P
  • John Tory (2004-2009)
  • Bob Runciman (2009, on an interim basis )
  • Tim Hudak (since 2009)
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