POLS 2300 Lecture Notes - Single Transferable Vote, Canada Pension Plan, Pierre Trudeau
10 Apr 2013
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For last 50 years, parties with most dispute was liberal and conservative parties. Co-operative commonwealth federation party (ccf)- labour friendly. Due to a number of factors including the decline in canadians" confidence in the traditional parties, the three-party system broke in the 1993 federal election, opening up to a multi-party system. Two new parties, the reform party and the bloc quebecois, won more seats than both the ndp and the progressive conservatives. Canada"s party system is the brokerage system: parties attempt to forge a series of alliances with certain societal interests (farmers, unions, seniors, business. youth, etc. ) in the hopes of forming a government. Conservatives have struggled to win seats in quebec and since pierre trudeau, the. Liberal party has had difficulty winning seats in the west. The reform/canadian alliance party was a predominantly western party. Liberals and conservative winning 95% of the vote. Dominated by macdonald (conservatives) and laurier (liberal) Progressive party representing farmers emerges in the 1920s.
