Liberals generally favoured land reform in the early years, culminating in the Robertson Land Acts.

The policies of the two main parties are exactly the reverse of 19th century, when the Conservatives were a party of protectionism and the Liberals favoured free trade with the US.

The Liberals, under leader Shawn Graham, led in public opinion polls as of the summer of 2004 and maintained that lead ; however, Lord remained the most favoured Leader to be Premier of New Brunswick for a time.

To Reformers, these events served as evidence that Liberals and Progressive Conservatives consistently favoured Eastern Canada at the expense of Western Canada.

However the progress of the SDP-Liberal Alliance as a whole was hampered with policy splits between the two parties, first over the miners ' strike ( 1984-5 ) where Owen and most of the SDP favoured a fairly tough line but the Liberals preferred compromise and negotiation.

Here Owen and the SDP favoured replacing of Polaris with Trident as a matter of some importance, where most Liberals were either indifferent to the issue or committed disarmers.

The SDP favoured a radical social market economy, whilst the Liberals mostly favoured a more interventionist, corporate style approach.

He briefly brought the Liberals and National Democrats into the cabinet, but soon reverted to the more repressive approach he generally favoured, ordering the arrest of numerous communists in January 1947.

Even among this latter group there were divisions: some Liberals agreed with the Conservatives that the railway should be directly built by the government, while others, including Cross, favoured a partnership with a " responsible company ".

The Liberals, in turn, agreed to implement some policies favoured by the NDP.

Luís's domestic reign was a tedious and ineffective series of transitional governments called Rotativism formed at various times by the Progressistas ( Liberals ) and the Regeneradores ( Conservatives – the party generally favoured by King Luís, who secured their long term in office after 1881 ).

Opposition MPPs, including New Democrat Peter Kormos and Conservative John Baird, suggested that Curling favoured his Liberal colleagues, sanctioning Conservative and NDP members for behaviour he would more often let slide from Liberals.

The Liberals won 6. 5 % more votes but still won fewer seats because the system favoured rural candidates.

He generally favoured the Liberals for the remainder of his time in parliament ( though continuing to sit as an Independent ), and stood aside in favour of Cameron in 1878.

At the heart of this debate is the conflict between liberal representative democracy, based on the Anglo-American political tradition, the English Glorious Revolution and the American Revolution, and the Scottish enlightenment, which is favoured by the Liberals ; and conceptions of direct democracy, based on the Jacobin traditions of the French Revolution, the French enlightenment, in particular Rousseau and the Maoist socialist-democratic concept of the mass line.

Cornish's loyalty to the Conservative Party was ambiguous in this period, and some sources believe he favoured the Liberals.

The Liberals favoured counselling, including a focus on adoption.

The Liberals formed government under David Peterson, and promised to implement some policies favoured by the NDP in return for support from that party in the legislature for two years.

In 1939 the Liberals, recognizing that they would have to choose someone with national stature to be president if they wanted to hold onto power, picked General Estigarribia, the hero of the Chaco War who had since served as special envoy to the United States.

At the same time, Buchan ventured into the political arena, and ran as a Unionist candidate in a Scottish Borders constituency ; he supported free trade, women's suffrage, national insurance, and curtailing the powers of the House of Lords, though he did also oppose the welfare reforms of the Liberal Party, and what he considered to be the " class hatred " fostered by demagogic Liberals such as David Lloyd George.

In March 1935, he became the Prime Minister of a government of national unity ( a coalition comprising the three major parties: Catholics, Liberals and Socialists ).

Many Red Tory voters in both Atlantic Canada and Ontario were fed up with the Tories, but found Reform's agenda too extreme and shifted to the Liberals, at least at the national level.

Despite strong support in rural central Ontario, a very socially conservative area which had been the backbone of previous provincial Tory governments, vote splitting with the national Tories allowed the Liberals to win all but one seat in Ontario.

Besides the two Conservative factions, the Labour Party were fighting as a major national party for the first time and indeed became the main Opposition after the election ; the Liberals were still split into Asquith and Lloyd George factions, with many Lloyd George Liberals still unopposed by Conservative candidates ( including Churchill, who was defeated at Dundee nonetheless ).

The Liberals ' sustained fight against the aristocracy and their quest to exclude conservatives from political life was not accompanied by a parallel effort to integrate other sectors such as indigenous people, ( The bulk of the population ) to the national modern project that they so vehemently postulated.

His death was marked by national mourning and bells tolling throughout the Republic, as he was one of the few prominent figures respected by Liberals and Conservatives alike.

In the aftermath of the 2011 federal election in which the Liberals were reduced to third place behind the NDP, Rae speculated on national television about the possibility of future co-operation between the two parties.

Copps turned to national politics in the 1984 federal election, campaigning for the federal Liberals in the riding of Hamilton East.

In one incident, Jean Chrétien was questioned by reporters over the financial cost of Liberals ' election proposal of a national pharmacare program in which reporters claimed that Chrétien was unsure of what the costs of such a program would be.

Orchard argued that before the merger was announced, the Canadian Alliance and its leader, Stephen Harper, were highly unpopular and a moment was fast approaching for the PCs to reemerge as the national alternative to the governing Liberals.

The Labour Party leadership always supported World War II, and they joined a national government with the Conservative Party and the Liberals, and agreed a non-contest pact in elections.

A part of the Liberals, however, still believed in the possibility of a constitutional grand-duke who could be induced for a second time to join Piedmont in a war against Austria, whereas the popular party headed by Ferdinando Bartolommei and Giuseppe Dolfi realized that only by the expulsion of Leopold could the national aspirations be realized.

* 1887-Honoré Mercier, leader of the Parti national ( Liberals ), becomes premier of Quebec.

After King Ferdinand I dissolved the Parliament, Iuliu Maniu found himself at odds with the national leadership, especially after the new Prime Minister Alexandru Averescu ( with support from the National Liberals ) dissolved the Transylvanian Council in April 1920.

Following the PC defeat to Lester Pearson's Liberals, Camp sought to reorganize the Tories and subsequently became president of the national party in 1964.

" Manning had originally suggested that the Reform Party was meant to be a new party, a third way as a populist alternative that could replace the complacent Liberals and Tories as a new national movement, but this hope was clearly not materializing beyond the Manitoba-Ontario border.

" Many political pundits were convinced that with no credible national alternative, the Liberals would easily cruise to a fourth straight majority victory in a future 2004 election.

Brown ran concurrently for seats in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and the Canadian House of Commons, and may well have been Prime Minister in the unlikely event that the Liberals prevailed over the Conservatives in the national election.

Brown failed to win a seat in either body, and the national Liberals remained officially leaderless until 1873.

However, Willkie's unexpected death later in 1944 left the Liberals without any truly national figures to lead the party.

In the national spotlight, the scandal became a significant factor in the lead-up to the 2006 federal election where after more than twelve years in power the Liberals were defeated by the Conservatives, who formed a minority government that was sworn in February 2006.