POL 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Michael Ignatieff, Sponsorship Scandal, Meech Lake Accord

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2101
• Professor: Andre Lecours

Document Summary

The nature and and functions of parties. The evolution of the canadian party system: the two-party system: 1867-1933, the two-party plus system: 1933-1993, the multiparty system: 1993-2011. Understanding parties in canada: brokering and canadian politics. Historically we can conclude that the liberal party does govern most of the time. There were strongholds that liberal party could always count on for votes. Early on from 20century to 1980 we had a lot of liberal government. Had another liberal government from 90"s to early 2000"s: historical background: "the natural" party of government, the pierre trudeau vision. In the 1980"s that was the dark days. 90s was a nice time to be federal liberal. Progressive conservative party was still there but was weakened. Interesting feature of liberal party of 90s and. 2000"s was the number of their ontario seats. There was election in 90s when liberal won all but one seat in ontario.