The Unite the Right movement was a Canadian political movement which existed from around 1996 to 2003. The movement came into being when it became clear that neither of Canada's two main right-of-center political parties: the Reform Party of Canada (later the Canadian Alliance ) or the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC), was independently capable of defeating the governing Liberal Party. The objective of the movement, therefore, was to merge the two parties into a single party (or, if this was not possible, to find a power-sharing arrangement between the two parties). The goal of uniting the right was accomplished in December 2003 with the formation of the Conservative Party of Canada.
Read more about Unite The Right: 1987 - 1993: Fragmentation On The Political Right, Barriers To A Merger, 1995 - 1996: Early Efforts To Unite The Right, 1997 - 2000: The United Alternative / Canadian Alliance, 2000 - 2002: Fragmentation of The Canadian Alliance, 2002: New Leadership, 2003: Merger Negotiations, 2003 - 2004: Creation of The Conservative Party of Canada, Aftermath, Provincial 'Unite The Right'
Famous quotes containing the words the right and/or unite:
“With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night
That somehow the right is the right
And the smooth shall bloom from the rough:
Lord, if that were enough?”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“I love this child. Red-haired—patient and gentle like her mother—fey and funny like her father. When she giggles I can hear him when he and I were young. I am part of this child. It may be only because we share genes and that therefore smell familiar to each other. . . . It may be that a part of me lives in her in some important way. . . . But for now, it’s jelly beans and “Old MacDonald” that unite us.”
—Robert Fulghum (20th century)