Science Fair Project Encyclopedia Ontario Liberal Party The
Ontario Liberal Party is a centrist provincial political party
in the province of Ontario, Canada. It has formed the Government
of Ontario since the provincial election of 2003. The party is
ideologically aligned with the Liberal Party of Canada. The
party is currently led by Dalton McGuinty, who has been its
leader since 1996. The Liberal Party of Ontario is descended
from the Reform Party of Robert Baldwin and William Lyon
Mackenzie, who argued for responsible government in the 1830s
and 1840s against the conservative patrician rule of the Family
Compact. The modern Liberals were founded by George Brown, who
sought to rebuild the Reform Party after its collapse in 1854.
In 1857, Brown brought together the Reformers and the radical
Clear Grits of southwestern Ontario to create a new party in
Upper Canada with a platform of democratic reform and annexation
of the northwest. The party adopted a position in favour of
uniting Upper and Lower Canada into