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Originally Posted by Socks
Lets not forget that what is now the Conservative Party of Canada was once a bunch of conservative parties that merged to take on the liberals. It's history repeating itself on the other side.
From Wikipedia:
The Canadian Alliance (in French Alliance Canadienne), formally the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance (or in French Alliance réformiste-conservateur Canadienne), was a Canadian conservative political party that existed from 2000 to 2003. The party was the successor to the Reform Party of Canada and inherited its position as the Official Opposition in the House of Commons and held it throughout its existence. The party supported policies that were both fiscally and socially conservative, seeking reduced government spending on social programs and reductions in taxation.
The Alliance was created out of the United Alternative initiative launched by the Reform Party and several provincial Tory parties as a vehicle to merge with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. The federal PC Party under Joe Clark rebuffed the initiative to "unite the right". In December 2003, the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative parties voted to disband and merge into the Conservative Party of Canada.
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While you may be correct on the history of the current Conservative party - the big difference between the merging of the Reform Party and factions of the remaining Conservative Party (not to forget the CRAP party under Stockwell Day; sic) - is the merger/alliance
DID NOT INCLUDE SEPARATISTS.
Also - the Conservative/Reform merger took place before the subsequent election and ran with a platform that was widely promoted to Canadians prior to the election.
This unholy triumvirate has no such platform. Their agenda is completely unknown to Canadians.