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The Reform party is much closer to what you would call conservative Republican.
Speech to the Council for National Policy (1997)
There is an important caveat to its liberal social values. For historic reasons that I won't get into, the Liberal party gets the votes of most Catholics in the country, including many practising Catholics.
Speech to the Council for National Policy (1997)
It may not be true, but it's legendary that if you're like all Americans, you know almost nothing except for your own country. Which makes you probably knowledgeable about one more country than most Canadians.
Speech to the Council for National Policy (1997)
The Reform party is very much a modern manifestation of the Republican movement in Western Canada; the U.S. Republicans started in the western United States.
Speech to the Council for National Policy (1997)
The predecessor of the Reform party, the Social Credit party, was very much like this. Believing in funny money and control of banking, and a whole bunch of fairly non-conservative economic things.
Speech to the Council for National Policy (1997)
They were in favour of gay rights officially, officially for abortion on demand... This explains one of the reasons why the Reform party has become such a power.
Speech to the Council for National Policy (1997)
[T]he NDP is kind of proof that the Devil lives and interferes in the affairs of men.
Speech to the Council for National Policy (1997)
[Y]our country, and particularly your conservative movement, is a light and an inspiration to people in this country and across the world.
Speech to the Council for National Policy (1997)
In fact, before the Reform Party really became a force in the late '80s, early '90s, the leadership of the Conservative party was running the largest deficits in Canadian history.
Speech to the Council for National Policy (1997)
In terms of the unemployed... don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel bad about it themselves, as long as they're receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance.
Speech to the Council for National Policy (1997)
But the Progressive Conservative is very definitely liberal Republican. These are people who are moderately conservative on economic matters, and in the past have been moderately liberal, even sometimes quite liberal on social policy matters.
Speech to the Council for National Policy (1997)
In the last Parliament, [the Liberal Party] enacted comprehensive gun control...
Speech to the Council for National Policy (1997)
While [Montreal] it is a French-speaking city – largely – it has an enormous English-speaking minority and a large number of what are called ethnics: they who are largely immigrant communities, but who politically and culturally tend to identify with the English community.
Speech to the Council for National Policy (1997)