Conservative Party of CanadaArticle Free Pass Conservative Party
of Canada, French Parti Conservateur du Canada, conservative
Canadian political party. The party was formed in 2003 by the
merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative
Party. The idea for a merger of Canada’s main conservative
parties arose in the 1990s when national support for the
Progressive Conservatives dwindled and the Reform Party (later
the Canadian Alliance) was unable to expand its national support
beyond its base in western Canada. Following the third
successive election victory of the Liberal Party of Canada in
2000, support for establishing a united conservative party
increased, and in December 2003 more than 90 percent of the
members of both the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive
Conservatives endorsed a merger. The Conservative Party of
Canada was officially registered with Elections Canada (an
independent agency established by the Canadian Parliament to
regulate elections and political parties) on December