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We are Canada’s oldest party. We continue to exist because the nation needs us.
The Progressive Canadian (PC) Party was officially registered with Elections Canada on May 29, 2004. At the time our leader remarked, “On Sir John A. Macdonald’s birthday, it’s the perfect time to talk about how Canada’s oldest political philosophy lives on in Canada’s newest political party."
We are looking to provide a political home for the millions of Canadians who have, over the years, voted for the former federal Progressive Conservative Party. (In 2003, the federal Progressive Conservative Party merged with the Canadian Alliance to form the Conservative Party of Canada with Stephen Harper as its leader.)
We are proud of the history, philosophy and centre-right principles that have defined Progressive Conservatives. So we adopted a constitution based on the constitution of the former Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, and incorporated the Macdonald-Cartier PC Fund as the Party’s fundraising organization.
We want to challenge the idea that politics is a game. We don’t accept that sound bites, spin and media manipulation are what Canadians want from their political leaders. We believe in a wider democracy, and in honesty and forthrightness. We believe that Canadians elect politicians to work in the best interest of the country and not in the interest of their political parties.
Many will tell you it cannot be done. That’s not true. We built a nation where it wasn’t possible, linked by a railway that united us from sea to sea. While other nations defined themselves with revolutions and civil war, Canadians showed you could make the transition peacefully. So many times – these and more – we have followed a uniquely successful “Canadian” way. Politics can be done differently. Help us prove it.
Come and join a party that listens. A party that finds that classical Canadian balance – to embrace progressive change. A party which has the courage to find new directions and new ideas -- yet one which is responsible enough to conserve that which is good.
Politics can be done differently. You can make a difference.