List of movements/Political Parties/Canada

Parties

Federal

House of Commons

Liberal Party of Canada
- Blue Grits
- Trudeau Liberals (Modern)
- Historical Factions
  - Reform Liberals (1817-1920s)
  - Clear Grits (1850s-1900s)
  - Rouge Liberals (1850s-1900s)
  - National Liberals (1867-1920s)
  - Laurier Liberals / United Opposition (1890s-1921)
  - Liberal Unionist (1917-1921)
  - Ginger Group of the Liberal Party (1924-1932)
  - Trudeauists (Pierre Trudeau) (1960s-1990s)
  - Moderates / Original Blue Grits (1920s-1990s)
Conservative Party of Canada
- Blue Tories
- Red Tories
- Pink Tories
- Yellow Tories
  - Historical
    - Original Red Tories
Bloc Québécois
New Democratic Party
- NDP Socialist Caucus
Green Party of Canada
- Eco-Socialist faction

Non-Represented

Historical

Major

Parti Patriote (Patriot Party) (1806-1837)
Reform Movement (1817-1849)
Red Party (Parti Rouge) (1847-1867)
Parti Bleu (Blue Party) (1854-1867)
Conservative Party of Canada (1867-1942)
Anti-Confederation (1867-1870)
Patrons of Industry (1890-1900)
McCarthyites (1896-1898)
Unionist Party (1917-1922)
United Farmers of Alberta (1919-1939)
Progressive Party of Canada (1920-1930)
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (1932-1961)
Social Credit Party of Canada (1935-1993)
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (1942-2003)
Labor-Progressive Party (1943-1959)
Reform Party of Canada (1987-2000)
Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance (2000-2003)
Democratic Representative Caucus (2001-2002)

Minor

Nationalist(I) (1873-1910)
Nationalist Conservatives (1878-1911)
Protestant Protective Association (1892-1898)
Socialist Party of Canada(I) (1904-1926)
Independent Labour Party (1926)
National Unity Party (1934-1940)
Reconstruction Party of Canada (1935-1938)
National Unity Party(II)/National Social Christian Party of Canada (1945-2016)
National Credit Control (1957)
Alliance of the North (2013-2019)
National Citizens Alliance (2016-2022)
Canadian Nationalist Party (2017-2022)
Stop Climate Change (2019-2021)
Parti Patriote (Quebec only) (2019-2022)
Parti pour l'Indépendance du Québec (2019-2022)

Provincial

Alberta

Legislative Assembly

Non-Represented

Historical

Major

Conservative Party of Alberta (1905-1942)
Alberta Non-Partisan League (1916-1921)
United Farmers of Alberta (1919-1937)
Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (1932-1962)
Social Credit Party of Alberta (1934-2017)
Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta (1942-2017)
Alberta Alliance (2002-2008)
Wildrose Party (2008-2017)

Minor

Alberta Labour Represenation League (1910s-1919)
Dominion Labour (1919-1942)
Independent Citizen's Association (1940-1948)
Veterans and Active Force (1944-1948)
Alberta Reform Movement (1981-1982)
Representive Party of Alberta (1984-1988)
Heritage Party of Alberta (1984-1987)
Confederation of Regions Party (1986-1996)
Alberta Greens (1986-2009)
Alberta First Party (1999-2018)
Independence Party of Alberta (2000-2001)
Evergreen Party of Alberta (2011-2012)
Freedom Conservative Party (2018-2020)

British Columbia

Legislative Assembly

Non-Represented

Historic

British Columbia Liberal Party(1873-2023)
Nationalist Party (1890s - 1900s)
Nationalist Party (1903s - 1960s) (revived many times)
Socialist Party of British Columbia (1901 - 1917)
Social Democratic Party of Canada (BC) (1912 - 1916)

Manitoba

Legislative Assembly

Non-Represented

Historical Parties

Canada Party (1870)
Dominion Labour Party of Manitoba (1918-1920)
Grey Party of Manitoba (2002-2003)
Manitoba First (2016-2022)

New Brunswick

Legislative Assembly

Non-Represented

Historical

Confederation Party (1860-1880)
Anti Confederation Party (1867-1870)
Labour Party of New Brunswick (1921-1925)
United Farmers' Party of New Brunswick (1921-1925)
Parti Acadien (1972-1982)
Confederation of Regions Party of New Brunswick (1989-2002)
Grey Party of New Brunswick (2002-2003)
People's Alliance of New Brunswick (2010-2022)

Newfoundland and Labrador

Legislative Assembly

Former

Labrador Party (1969-1975)
Newfoundland and Labrador Alliance (2017, 2019-2023)

Parties before Confederation with Canada

Nova Scotia

Legislative Assembly

Non-Represented

Ontario

Legislative Assembly

Non-Represented

Historical

Upper Canada Tories (1830s-1860s)
Liberal Conservative Party of Ontario (1867-1942)
Soldier party/ Soldier Farmer Party (1919-1923)
Ontario First Party (2021-2022)

Prince Edward Island

Legislative Assembly

Non-Represented

New Democratic Party of Prince Edward Island

Québec

National Assembly

Coalition Avenir Québec
Parti Libéral du Québec
- Historical
  - Quiet Revolution Era (1960s-1970s)
Québec Solidaire
- Gauche Socialiste
Parti Québécois
- Syndicalistes et progressistes pour un Québec libre !

Non-Represented

Historical

Major

Parti Patriote (Patriot Party) (1806-1837)
Red Party (Parti Rouge) (1847-1867)
Parti Bleu (1857-1867)
Parti conservateur du Québec (1867-1936)
Action libérale nationale (1934-1939)
Ralliement créditiste (1930s-1980s)
Union Nationale (1935-1989)
Union des électeurs (1939-1949)
Bloc populaire canadien (1942-1947)
Ralliement créditiste du Québec (1970-1978)
Parti progressiste conservateur du Québec (1982-1989)
Equality Party/Parti Égalité (1989-2012)
Action démocratique du Québec (1994-2012)
Option nationale – Pour l'indépendance du Québec (2011-2018)

Minor

Parti ouvrier (1890-1931)
Parti communiste du Québec (1921-2005) (factions are still active)
Parti social démocratique du Québec / Fédération du Commonwealth Coopératif (1939-1961)
Parti ouvrier-progressiste (1944-1956)
Democratic Alliance / Alliance démocratique (1960s-1976)
Parti socialiste du Québec (1963-1968)
Parti de la Democratie Socialiste (1963-2002)
Parti crédit social uni(I) (1969-1971)
Groupe socialiste des travailleurs du Québe (1973-1987)
Regroupement des militants syndicaux (1974-1981)
Libertarian Party of Quebec /Parti libertaire du Québec (1976-1981)
Parti des travailleurs du Québec (1976-1990s)
Parti démocrate créditiste (1978-1981)
Parti de la Liberté de Choix (1979-1982)
Parti crédit social uni(II) (1979-1994)
Mouvement socialiste (1981-1989)
Parti pour la république du Canada (Québec) (1983-1994)
Parti indépendantiste(I) (1985-1989)
Parti du socialisme chrétien (1985-1986)
Parti humaniste du Québec (1985-1987)
Parti 51(I) (1989-1990)
Unity Party/Parti unité (1989-1990)
CANADA! (1994-1998)
Parti innovateur du Québec (1994-2003)
Rassemblement pour l'alternative progressiste (2000-2002)
Parti Unité Nationale (2000-2018)
Union des forces progressistes (2002-2006)
Option citoyenne (2004-2006)
Parti indépendantiste(II) (2007-2014)
Parti république du Québec (2007-2009)
Parti durable du Québec (2008-2009)
Union citoyenne du Québec (2012-2015)
Parti équitable (2012-2017)
Mon pays le Québec (2012-2014)

Saskatchewan

Legislative Assembly

Non-Represented

Yukon

Legislative Assembly

Non-Represented

Yukon Freedom Party

Historical

Yukon Progressive Conservative Party (1978-1991)
Independent Alliance Party (1991-1999)
United Citizens Party (2010-2011)
Yukon First Nations Party (2011-2016)
Yukon Green Party (2011-2021)

Local Government

Note: Most Local Offices are non-partisan and do not have parties

Vancouver

Major Parties

Minor Party

Historic Parties

The Electors' Action Movement (1960s-1980s)
Neighbourhoods for a Sustainable Vancouver (2007-2021)
Vancouver 1st (2013-2018)

Montreal

Major Party

Minor Party

Plateau sans frontières

Historic

Vision Montreal (1994-2014)
Vrai changement pour Montréal (2013-2021)
Montréal Écologique (1990-1994)
Parti civique de Montréal (1960-1994)

Surrey

Movements on Quebec's Relationship with Canada

First-Nations Confederations/Movements/Protests/Blockades

Haudenosaunee Confederacy Between 1450 and 1660 - 1867
Red River Rebellion (1869–1870)
Kanesatake Resistance/Oka Crisis (July 11 – September 26, 1990)
2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests (2020 - Ongoing)
Council of Three Fires

Social and Political Movements

Canadian Prohibition Movement (1880s-1910s)
Trudeaumania (1968-1971)
Quebec Independence Movement (1980s-2000s) (Elements still active but mostly dead)
Western Independence (I) (1980s)
Ontario Common Sense Revolution (1995)
Unite the Centre Right (1998-2003)
Grey Party Movement (2002-2003)
Quebec Student Protests (2012)
Anything But Conservative Movement (2010s)
Second Trudeaumania (2013-2016)
Alberta Unite the Centre Right (2015-2017)
Ford Nation Movement (2017-2019)
Bernier Conservatives (2017-2018) (Became the foundation of the People's Party)
People's Party-Libertarian Party Unity Campaign (2018-2019)
Black Lives Matter Canada (2020, 3 weeks)
Freedom Convoy / Convoy Protests (2022) (Called the Convoy Occupation by most Canadians)
Rolling Thunder Convoy Protest (2022) (Also called Freedom Convoy 2)

Ongoing

Quebec Sovereignty and regionalist movement (1950s-present)
Canadian Monarchists (1950s-present)
Canadian Republicans (1980s-present)
Ontario Take Back our PC Party (2016-ongoing)
Quebecois New Right (2014-ongoing)
Western Independence(II) (2019-present)

Prime Ministers and Important Politicians

John A. Macdonald ( Liberal-Conservative Party, 1867-1873)
Alexander Mackenzie ( Liberal Party of Canada, 1873-1878)
John A. Macdonald ( Liberal-Conservative Party, 1878-1891)
John Abbott ( Liberal-Conservative Party of Canada, 1891-1892)
John Thompson ( Liberal-Conservative Party of Canada, 1892-1894)
Mackenzie Bowell ( Conservative Party of Canada, 1894-1896)
Charles Tupper ( Liberal-Conservative Party, 1896)
Sir Wilfrid Laurier ( Liberal Party of Canada, 1896-1911)
Robert Borden ( Conservative Party of Canada, National Union Party Coalition, 1911-1920) (Two Different Ministries in one term, only time this happened)
Arthur Meighen ( Conservative Party of Canada, 1920-1921)
William Lyon Mackenzie King ( Liberal Party of Canada, 1921-1926)
Arthur Meighen ( Conservative Party of Canada, 1926)
William Lyon Mackenzie King ( Liberal Party of Canada, 1926-1930)
R. B. Bennet ( Conservative Party of Canada, 1930-1935)
William Lyon Mackenzie King ( Liberal Party of Canada, 1935-1948)
Louis St. Laurent ( Liberal Party of Canada, 1948-1957)
John Diefenbaker ( Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, 1957-1963)
Lester B. Pearson ( Liberal Party of Canada, 1963-1968)
Pierre Trudeau ( Liberal Party of Canada, 1968-1979)
Joe Clark ( Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, 1979-1980)
Pierre Trudeau ( Liberal Party of Canada, 1980-1984)
John Turner ( Liberal Party of Canada, 1984)
Brian Mulroney ( Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, 1984-1993)
Kim Campbell ( Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, 1993)
Jean Chrétien ( Liberal Party of Canada, 1993-2003)
Paul Martin ( Liberal Party of Canada, 2003-2006)
Stephen Harper ( Conservative Party of Canada, 2006-2015)
Justin Trudeau ( Liberal Party of Canada, 2015-)

Government House Leader

Government Senate Representative

Mackenzie Bowell ( Liberal-Conservative Party, 1864-1873)
Luc Letellier de Saint-Just ( Liberal Party of Canada, 1873-1876)

Leaders of Offical Opposition

(Office created in 1873)

Alexander Mackenzie ( Liberal Party of Canada, 1873)
John A. Macdonald ( Liberal-Conservative Party, 1873-1878)
Alexander Mackenzie ( Liberal Party of Canada, 1878-1880)
Edward Blake ( Liberal Party of Canada, 1880-1887)
Sir Wilfrid Laurier ( Liberal Party of Canada, 1887-1896)
Charles Tupper ( Liberal-Conservative Party, 1896-1901)
Robert Borden ( Liberal-Conservative Party, 1901-1911)
Sir Wilfrid Laurier ( Liberal Party of Canada, 1911-1919) (Second opposition)
Daniel Duncan Mackenzie ( Liberal Party of Canada, 1919)
William Lyon Mackenzie King ( Liberal Party of Canada, 1919-1921)
Arthur Meighen ( Conservative Party of Canada, 1921-1926) (Not the leader with most opposition but the progressives chose not to form opposition)
Thomas Crerar ( Progressive Party of Canada, 1921-1926) (The leader with most opposition but chose not to form opposition, became supply and confidence for liberals in 1926)
William Lyon Mackenzie King ( Liberal Party of Canada, 1926)
Hugh Guthrie ( Conservative Party of Canada, 1926-1927)
R. B. Bennet ( Conservative Party of Canada, 1927-1930)
William Lyon Mackenzie King ( Liberal Party of Canada, 1930-1935)
R. B. Bennet ( Conservative Party of Canada, National Conservative Party, 1935-1938)
Robert Manion (National Conservative Party, 1938-1940)
Richard Hanson (National Conservative Party, Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, 1940-1943)
Gordon Graydon ( Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, 1943-1945)
John Bracken ( Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, 1945-1948)
George A. Drew ( Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, 1948-1954)
William Earl Rowe ( Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, 1954-1955)
George A. Drew ( Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, 1955-1956)
William Earl Rowe ( Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, 1956)
John Diefenbaker ( Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, 1956-1957)
Louis St. Laurent ( Liberal Party of Canada, 1957-1958)
Lester B. Pearson ( Liberal Party of Canada, 1958-1963)
John Diefenbaker ( Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, 1963-1967)
Michael Starr ( Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, 1967)
Robert Stanfield ( Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, 1967-1976)
Joe Clark ( Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, 1976-1979)
Pierre Trudeau ( Liberal Party of Canada, 1979-1980)
Joe Clark ( Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, 1980-1983)
Erik Nielsen ( Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, 1983)
Brian Mulroney ( Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, 1983-1984)
John Turner ( Liberal Party of Canada, 1984-1990)
Herb Gray ( Liberal Party of Canada, 1990)
Jean Chretien ( Liberal Party of Canada, 1990-1993)
Lucien Bouchard ( Bloc Quebecois, 1993-1996)
Gilles Duceppe ( Bloc Quebecois, 1996)
Michel Gauthier ( Bloc Quebecois, 1996-1997)
Gilles Duceppe ( Bloc Quebecois, 1997)
Preston Manning ( Reform Party of Canada, 1997-2000)
Deborah Grey ( Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance, 2000)
Stockwell Day ( Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance, 2000-2001)
John Reynolds ( Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance, 2001-2002)
Stephen Harper ( Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance, 2002-2004)
Grant Hill ( Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance, Conservative Party of Canada, 2004)
Stephen Harper ( Conservative Party of Canada, 2004-2006)
Bill Graham ( Liberal Party of Canada, 2006)
Stephane Dion ( Liberal Party of Canada, 2006-2008)
Michael Ignatieff ( Liberal Party of Canada, 2008-2011)
Jack Layton ( New Democratic Party, 2011)
Nycole Turmel ( New Democratic Party, 2011-2012)
Tom Mulcair ( New Democratic Party, 2012-2015)
Rona Ambrose ( Conservative Party of Canada, 2015-2017)
Andrew Scheer ( Conservative Party of Canada, 2017-2020)
Erin O'Toole ( Conservative Party of Canada, 2020-2022)
Candice Bergen ( Conservative Party of Canada, 2022)
Pierre Poilievre ( Conservative Party of Canada, 2022-)

Leader of the Opposition in the Senate

Leader of the Opposition in the House

List of Privy Council Members

Highly Influential from 1867 until the Acts of Westminster and basically just a suggest panel after the 1982 Constitution Act. Currently has the power to advise the PM and Cabinet, and formerly held law making executive powers as an extended cabinet.