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It probabaly shouldn't have the new Conservative Party logo in the heading, however. I can see how that might be confusing for someone not familiar with the subject... the new Conservative Party does not reaally speak for the other dead parties.
Well maybe there is a better way to show all political leaders of some historical parties that are somewhat related to eachother. This template is confusing, as I have shown above.
--Colle||Talk-- 23:24, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I edited this one to conform with the wikipedia standard for general catagories. Looks like Harper has quite the team behind him!--Colle||Talk-- 22:34, 13 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
A seperate template is not necessary. The Leaders template mentions and has the links to the parties, not to mention all the leaders in one template. And the Unionists and National Government weren't really parties. Jareand 22:34, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
How is it a good idea? That template has the exact same information as the other template! Only it doesn't have party leader information. It is utterly stupid. Jareand 21:25, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
YES it does. Jareand, you are being a real revisionist here. The template says "Leaders of Canadian federal Conservative Parties" It does *not* say "Leaders of parties that are blood relatives of the CPC". The Progressive Canadian Party has a far stronger (albeit less institutional) relation to the Progressive Conservative Party than the "Conservative" (Reform) Party of Stephen Harper. You say that pointing this out is POV, but apparently for you to deny it is not POV. And I now just find that there is an article attached to this template. SoCreds and PCP should *asolutely* be added. I should have brought this here earlier rather than trying to resolve a dispute in edit summaries, so thanks to CJCurrie for that. Carolynparrishfan18:58, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
How about a "see also" section at the bottom linking to these parties, or more specifically, their leader lists?Circeus00:18, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
They aren't an antecedent of Reform. The Socreds may have been a right-wing populist party, but they're main issue was social credit policies. That sure doesn't sound like the Reform Party. And besides, they didn't disolve into Reform (like how Reform disolved into the Alliance), and (in my opinion) only the parties that merged to form the CPC (the CA and PCs), and parties that evolved into them (Lib-Cons, Historical Cons, Reform) should be on this template. I'm open to ideas. Maybe links to non-releated conservative parties (not the leaders) could be in small print in a "see also" section, but I don't see the point in doing that.
Now, Carolynparrishfan, stop presenting opinions as facts!
OFFICIALLY (this is official, not opinion!):
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and the Canadian Alliance merged to form the Conservative Party of Canada.
The Progressive Canadian Party is a minor third party form by a group of Red Tories nostalgic for the Prog-Cons.
Whether or not the CPC is "Reform in disguise" or if the Prog Canadians have are more related to the Prog Cons than the CPC is open to debate.
Once again, it all comes down to the fact that PCP is a a Canadian federal conservative party. For the purposes of this template, it does not matter that it is not a "blood relative". You have yet to address this point. Carolynparrishfan17:25, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
This template is for direct descendants of the current Conservative Party of Canada. The Social Credit party is not related to the Reform Party, only by that Preston Manning's father was a long time Social Credit leader in Alberta for many years, and the Progressive Canadian Party is not related to this Conservative Party. SFrank8518:10, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
To the person who tried to revert this: Quite simply, please don't. This is the best title I can think of, if you have another please suggest it. But the fact is that this does not encompass all Canadian federal conservative parties, such as the PCP, SoCreds, etc. Carolynparrishfan17:32, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Harper was origially a Reform Party leader, and his italicized name has a (C) next to it. Technically, shouldn't that be an (R)? Or just because he is now a CPC PM, that means the (C) has to be there? --Zblewski (talk) 18:32, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
If you look over two names from the italicized "Harper (C)", you'll see a non-italicized "Harper" next to a "(CA)". He was elected as leader of the Conservative Party, after he had originally resigned as the Canadian Alliance leader before the party dissolved. nat.utoronto18:48, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]