fuck. another election.
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Originally Posted by Charlatan
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The Conservatives were once two parties. The Progressive Conservatives and the Reform (later Alliance) Party. The PCs were once (in Canadian terms) just to the right of centre. They held office, with prime minister Brian Mulroney, during much of the Regan years. The PC party never really recovered.
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You forgot to mention that when they first merged, they called themselves the Canadian Reform Alliance Party (or was it Conservative Reform Alliance party?) At any rate, once they realized that the name spelled CRAP, they put on their thinking caps like good little conservatives and just called themselves The Conservative Party.