Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

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The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (PC; French: Parti progressiste-conservateur de l'Ontario), often shortened to the Ontario PC Party, or simply the PCs, colloquially known as the Tories, is a provincial political party in Ontario, Canada. Throughout Ontario's history, it has remained the "natural governing party" at the provincial level. During its uninterrupted governance from 1943 to 1985 known as the Big Blue Machine, the Ontario PC Party adhered to the ideology of Red Toryism, favouring government intervention in the economy, increased spending on infrastructure, education, and health care while remaining progressive on social issues such as equal pay for women, anti-discrimination laws, voting rights for First Nations people and French-language services. In the 1990s, the party underwent a rightward shift to Blue Toryism after the election of Mike Harris as leader, who was premier from 1995 to 2002 and favoured a "Common Sense Revolution" platform of cutting taxes and...

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