Back حزب أونتاريو المحافظ التقدمي Arabic Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario German Partido Conservador Progresista de Ontario Spanish Parti progressiste-conservateur de l'Ontario French Progresywno-Konserwatywna Partia Ontario Polish Прогрессивно-консервативная партия Онтарио Russian Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario SIMPLE Ontarios progressiva konservativa parti Swedish Прогресивно-консервативна партія Онтаріо Ukrainian 安大略進步保守黨 Chinese
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario Parti progressiste-conservateur de l'Ontario | |
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| Abbreviation | PC |
| Leader | Doug Ford |
| President | Michael Diamond |
| House leader | Paul Calandra |
| Founded | 1854 (as Conservative Party of Canada West) |
| Preceded by | Upper Canada Tories |
| Headquarters | 400-56 Aberfoyle Crescent, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Youth wing | Ontario Young Progressive Conservative Association |
| Membership (2018) | 133,000[1] |
| Ideology | Conservatism (Canadian) Progressive conservatism Economic liberalism |
| Political position | Centre to centre-right |
| Colours | Blue |
| Seats in the Legislature | 79 / 124 |
| Website | |
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The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (French: Parti progressiste-conservateur de l'Ontario), often shortened to the Ontario PC Party or simply the PCs, colloquially known as the Tories, is a centre to centre-right political party in Ontario, Canada.
During its uninterrupted governance from 1943 to 1985, the Ontario PC Party adhered to the ideology of Red Toryism, favouring government intervention in the economy, increased spending on infrastructure, education and health care and being progressive on social issues such as equal pay for women, anti-discrimination laws, voting rights for First Nations people and French-language services. In the 1990s, the party underwent a shift to Blue Toryism after the election of Mike Harris as leader, who was premier from 1995 to 2002 and favoured a "Common Sense Revolution" platform of cutting taxes and government spending while balancing the budget through small government. The PCs lost power in 2003; however, they came back into power with a majority government in 2018 under Doug Ford.
- ^ "Interim Ontario PC leader says party has 67,000 fewer members than claimed". ctvnews.ca. 2 February 2018. Archived from the original on 25 April 2019. Retrieved 4 February 2018.