During the early years of the US whe had a Whig party, The challange is to get a American Tory Party to go with it.
Maybe a Tory party under a different name to avoid the Revolutionary War stigma.
a short definition of what a Tory Party would espouse
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Maybe a Tory party under a different name to avoid the Revolutionary War stigma.
a short definition of what a Tory Party would espouse
[italics mine]
the notion of an orderly process rather than the more common "land rush" found in the American colonies is part of the Canadian heritage. That "peace, order and good government" was placed in the preamble to our Constitution (the British North America Act of 1867) is no accident: it is a deeply-rooted part of who we are.
It is also a deeply-rooted part of who we are today, many decades and much immigration later. The perception of Canada in the world, from the early 19th century to the present day, is of a peaceable land, where one makes one's way in an ordered and stable society. Those who wanted to define the frontier did so in the United States (where packing up and moving on has been a part of that society's culture since before the American Revolution) or in Australia; those who wanted to settle and make a go of things in a protected environment came to Canada (or New Zealand). This, too, is a part of the perennial emigration from Canada of those Canadians who think there is little opportunity here: they hear the wild goose of the open frontier calling. But who we are are people who by and large want to stay at home and build our own communities, and who will therefore change a little more slowly. We are, in other words, natural Tories with our sense of bonding to the past, the present and the future and stewardship over places and ways of doing things, but (and this is a tribute to the demands of our geography) a communitarian base (lone wolves in Canada have often frozen to death!). [This is why our politics contains both the Tory (now Conservative) stream and the Clear Grit -> CCF -> NDP stream, and why these streams are often able to see merit in the other's positions against the Liberals,