Talk:Progressive Party of Canada

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The party never merged with the Progressives in 1942. John Bracken made it a provision of his taking over the leadership of the Conservative Party in that year that it officially adopt the additional name in deference to his period in office as Progressive Premier of Manitoba

10 Feb 2005 copyedit
I've done some geenral clean up on this article, and have removed two things; Kevintoronto 18:25, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) The claim that Progressives had something to do with Diefenbaker and Mulroney's success in the West in 1958 and 1984. Mulroney's western supporters were conservatives, not progressives. I am less sure about Dief's support, but it sounds like unsupported speculation to me, so I've removed it. If someone can provide evidence and references to support the claim, we can put it back in.
 * 2) The references to Tom Daschle and Newt Gingrich. These were just weird, and more confusing than enlightening. The comparison between 21st century American politicians and an early 20th century Canadian party was really tenuous.

A couple things confuse me
The statement The party also had no national organization, this seems odd since I have a published clipping from Yellow Grass our Prarie Community that mentions John Morrison winning a Progressive nomination meeting in Weyburn for the Weyburn electoral district, in 1921 and it being the largest organized political event in the city to that point.

How can it be argued that the United Farmers were provincial wings when there existed a federal United Farmers party at the same time? --Cloveious 03:30, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
 * No national organization means that they did not have any organization beyond the local riding level. The Progressives were well organized in each riding, but there was no organization coordinating a national campaign. The federal United Farmers were pretty much the same thing as the Progressives. The party was loose enough that they didn't even regulate what name candidates could run under. The United Farmer's MPs in parliament sat in the Progressive caucus, and the remains of the Progressive Party would eventually rename itself the United Farmers of Alberta. - SimonP 13:44, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Merger proposal
The United Farmers article and Progressive Party of Canada cover a lot of the same ground - I think they should be merged. Reggie Perrin (talk) 19:35, 14 February 2008 (UTC)