POLS 2300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Jack Layton, Canadian Alliance, Stockwell Day
7 Apr 2016
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Canadian alliance party existed from 2000 2003. Was a successor to the canadian reform party. Supported policies that were fiscally and socially conservative. Stockwell day was the leader of the alliance party beat out preston. Manning: alliance"s share of popular vote increased from 19. 4% in 1997 25. 5% in 2000, the party"s share of the popular vote increased from 19. 1% in 1997 . 23. 6% in 2000: alliance increased seats in the house of commons from 60 66, alliance"s share of the popular vote in ontario exceeded that od the. Day = social conservatism, religious beliefs, rejected the evolutionary theory. Christianity placed day further from the safe centre of canadian spiritual life than the other leaders. For the alliance to breakthrough beyond the west, it needed a leader who could not be portrayed as a religious nut. Pc"s were clinging to the hope the alliance would implode.
