The Liberal Party of Canada

1. The Liberal Party of Canada

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The Liberal Party
of Canada

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The Liberal Party of Canada is the longestserving and oldest active federal political
party in Canada. The party has dominated
f e d e r a l p o l i t i c s f o r m u c h o f C a n a d a ' s h i s t o r y.
The Liberals held power for almost 70 years in
t h e 2 0 t h c e n t u r y, w h i c h i s m o r e t h a n a n y o t h e r
p a r t y i n a d e v e l o p e d c o u n t r y. A s a r e s u l t , i t
has sometimes been referred to as Canada's
"natural governing party". The party espouses
the principles of liberalism, and generally sits
at the centre to centre-left of the Canadian
political spectrum, with the Conservative Party
positioned to the centre-right to the right and
t h e N e w D e m o c r a t i c P a r t y, o c c u p y i n g t h e
centre-left to left. Like their federal
Conservative Party rivals, the party is often
described as a "big tent", attracting support
from a broad spectrum of voters. In the late
1 9 7 0 s , Prime Min is te r Pie rre Ellio tt Tru d e a u
claimed that his Liberal Party adhered to the
"radical centre".

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The Liberals' signature policies and
legislative decisions include universal health
care, the Canada Pension Plan, Canada
Student Loans, peacekeeping, multilateralism,
official bilingualism, official multiculturalism,
patriating the Canadian constitution and the
entrenchment of Canada's Charter of Rights
and Freedoms, the Clarity Act, legalizing
same-sex marriage, euthanasia, and cannabis,
national carbon pricing, and reproductive
choic. In the 2015 federal election, the Liberal
Pa rty u n d e r J u s tin Tru d e a u h a d its b e s t re s u lt
since the 2000 election, winning 39.5 percent
of the popular vote and 184 seats, gaining a
majority of seats in the House of Commons. In
the 2019 federal election, they lost their
m a j o r i t y, w i n n i n g 1 5 7 s e a t s , b u t t h e y s t i l l

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J u s t i n Tr u d e a u
On Ap ril 1 4 , 2 0 1 3 J u s tin Tru d e a u , s o n o f
fo rme r Prime Min is te r Pie rre Tru d e a u , wa s
elected leader of the Liberal Party on the
first ballot, winning 80% of the vote .
Following his win, support for the Liberal
P a r t y i n c r e a s e d c o n s i d e r a b l y, a n d t h e
party moved into first place in public
opinion polls. An initial surge in support in
th e p o lls fo llo win g Tru d e a u 's e le c tio n wo re
o ff i n t h e f o l l o wi n g ye a r, i n t h e f a c e o f
Co n s e rva tive a d c a mp a ig n a fte r Tru d e a u 's
win attempting to «him as a silly dilettante
u n fit fo r p u b lic o ffic e .» In 2 0 1 4 , Tru d e a u
removed all Liberal senators from the
Liberal Party caucus. In announcing this,
Tru d e a u s a id th e p u rp o s e o f th e u n e le c te d
upper chamber is to act as a check on the
p o we r o f t h e p r i m e m i n i s t e r, b u t t h e p a r t y
structure interferes with that purpose.
Following this move, Liberal senators
chose to keep the designation "Liberal"
and sit together as a caucus, albeit not
one supported by the Liberal Party of
Canada. This independent group continued
to refer to itself in publications as the
Senate Liberal Caucus until 2019.
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The principles of the party are based on
liberalism as defined by various liberal
theorists and include individual freedom for
present and future generations,
r e s p o n s i b i l i t y, h u m a n d i g n i t y, a j u s t s o c i e t y,
political freedom, religious freedom,
n a t i o n a l u n i t y, e q u a l i t y o f o p p o r t u n i t y,
c u l t u r a l d i v e r s i t y, b i l i n g u a l i s m , a n d
multilateralism. In the present times, the
Liberal party has favoured a variety of "big
tent" policies from both right and left of the
political spectrum. When it formed the
government from 1993 to 2006, it
championed balanced budgets, and
eliminated the budget deficit completely
from the federal budget in 1995 by reducing
spending on social programs or delegating
them to the provinces, and promised to
r e p l a c e t h e G o o d s a n d S e r v i c e s Ta x i n t h e
party's famous Red Book. It also legalized
same-sex marriage.

6. Michael Ignatieff speaks during a news conference in Toronto

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Michael Ignatieff
speaks during a news
conference inToronto

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