Conservative party of Quebec

The Conservative party of Quebec was a political party with the Quebec, Canada.

This party exists initially under the name of blue Parti , formed in 1850 by the supporters of Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine. The blue left is opposed to the policies anticlericals and the radicalism of its rival, the red Parti Louis-Joseph Papineau.

The blue left supports the role of the Clergé in the Québécois company. Some members of the blue left , carried out by Georges-Etienne Cartier of the Low-Canada, unite with the supporters John A. Macdonald of the High-Canada to form a Coalition government 1857 with 1862. It is this coalition which becomes the Conservative party (then called Liberal-Conservative ), which will be the instigator of the Canadian Confédération in 1867.

After the Confederation, Quebec is a Canadian province and old the left blue becomes the Québécois section of the conservative party of Macdonald. This party forms the government of the province and Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau becomes the first Prime Minister of Quebec. Cartier is the Québécois lieutenant of Macdonald to the House of Commons with Ottawa. The conservatives dominate the policy of federal Quebec on the levels and provincal during the thirty years to come. They will form the government of Quebec during twenty-five years out of thirty, providing eight of the ten Prime Ministers lasting this period.

However, the party becomes more and more divided between a moderate faction and the ultramontane faction of fundamentalist the Catholique S. Moreover, the bonds of the provincial party with the federal conservative party harms the provincial party because the federal party is perceived like hostile with Canadian-French and Quebec. The execution of Louis Riel in 1885 spends the Inhabitants of Quebec in anger and night to the conservatives of Macdonald at the time of the elections.

After the death of Macdonald in 1891, the coalition which forms the federal conservative party breaks down, in particular on the Question of the schools of Manitoba. The resolution of this polemic eliminates the possibility of a significant presence from Canadian-French in the Canadian west.

The federal conservatives lose the federal election of 1896, mainly because of the collapse of their supports in Quebec. The provincial conservative government of Edmund James Flynn loses the provincial election of 1897. Following the defeats of 1896 and 1897, the conservatives are minority in Quebec on the two levels of government. The conservative party of Quebec forever formed another provincial government. The Liberal party of Quebec exerts the power without interruption during the thirty-eight following years.

The popularity of the conservatives still falls with the crisis of the conscription of 1917 when the federal conservative government of Robert Borden imposes the conscription on Quebec in spite of the opposition of the majority of Inhabitant of Quebec. This event involves riots in the province.

In 1933, Maurice Duplessis becomes the chief of the conservatives of Quebec. The following year, the liberal party with the capacity divides when a group of nationalist liberals dissatisfied with the government of Louis-Alexandre Taschereau leaves the party to form the national liberal Action (ALN). Duplessis approaches the dissenting party and, two weeks before the election of 1935, the conservatives and the ALN form an alliance under the name of “National union” with an aim of avoiding dividing the votes opposed to the liberals. Later, alliance is formalized and the two groups found a sole party under the name of National union. This party gains the election of 1936 and dominates the Québécois policy until the death of Duplessis in 1959.

At the time of the general election of 1939, a vestige of the old Conservative party introduces three candidates. They collect only 0,2% of the voices, and the party dissolves shortly after.

Chiefs of the Conservative party of Quebec

See too

External bonds

  • historical Information of the National Assembly
  • the Québécois Policy on the Web

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