POLI 410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Blue Tory, Red Tory, Free Market
15 Jun 2018
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POLI410 Conservative Party of Canada Lecture Notes
Liberal Party Story
- Dominance, across time
The Story
- A story of loss and rebuilding
- Said to have minority party syndrome
o Perpetual minority
o Episodic victories
- Conservative politics in Canada are the story of:
o Rebuilding
o Internal tensions
▪ Perhaps due to the legacy of being dominated all the time
- Since confederation, 17 winning elections, 11 majorities and 6 minorities
o Two big wins 1958 Diefenbaker and 1940 Mulroney
o One of the largest landslide victories – rare where Conservatives made inroads
into Quebec
o Especially after the Mulroney era, swift blows in elections
o 1980s swift blow that reshapes the party structure
- story of rebuilding losses
- about strategy, policy, and ideology
- from the beginning always strife with ideological disputes
o often considered to undercut electoral purposes
- debates within the Conservative party itself
o debate between Red and Blue Tories
- Red Toryism
o Horowitz
o Political culture and tradition, relationship with Britain
o Suspicious about the market being supreme
o Free market without any regulation
o Sustained socialist movement in Canada itself
o Is Mulroney a Red Tory? Embodied some of these themes
- Blue Toryism
o The one that took over Conservative party after Harper took over
o Idea that the free market and neo-liberalism
o Subscribes to frugality and spending, low taxes, balanced budgets
o Privilege markets over government in economic matters
o Suspicion of government intervention, particularly in economic matters
o fiscally coservative
o founded on a neo-liberal logic
o dual nature of the conservative party
o since its origins, the party has had to balance a belief of collectivism and privilege
vs. individual and freedoms (American influence)
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Document Summary
Said to have minority party syndrome: perpetual minority, episodic victories. Conservative politics in canada are the story of: rebuilding. Internal tensions: perhaps due to the legacy of being dominated all the time. About strategy, policy, and ideology from the beginning always strife with ideological disputes: often considered to undercut electoral purposes. Debates within the conservative party itself: debate between red and blue tories. Red toryism: horowitz, political culture and tradition, relationship with britain, suspicious about the market being supreme, free market without any regulation, sustained socialist movement in canada itself. Blue toryism: the one that took over conservative party after harper took over. The party of sir john a macdonald: first party to go in government post-confederation, suppression of indigenous, founded on british-centred nationalism, dominant central government identification needed to bring french and. From 1921-1953: different have a grounding identity, struggle to have a wining coalition of voters, only one electoral win in 1930 developed a strategy to win without.
