Liberal Party of Canada

Liberal Party of Canada Parti libéral du Canada
Leader	Justin Trudeau
Deputy Leader	Vacant
President	Suzanne Cowan
Founder	George Brown
Founded	1867; 157 years ago (1867)
Preceded by	Clear Grits, Parti rouge
Headquarters	Constitution Square, Ottawa, Ontario
Youth wing	Young Liberals of Canada
Ideology	Liberalism Social liberalism[1][2][3][4]
Political position	Centre[5][6] to centre-left[7][8]
International affiliation	Liberal International[9]
Colours	Red
Party members in the Senate[note 1]	9 / 105
Seats in the House of Commons	157 / 338
Website
liberal.ca
Political parties

The Liberal Party of Canada (French: Parti libéral du Canada) is a political party in Canada. The party is considered to be centre to centre-left. The party was the Official Opposition after it lost the 2006 election, until the NDP became the Official Opposition in 2011. They won the election in 2015. The current party leader is the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

1. ↑ The party became infused with social liberalism in the 1940s and 1950s. Law Commission of Canada (2011). Law and Citizenship. UBC Press. p. 6. ISBN 9780774840798.
2. ↑ Susan Prentice, "Manitoba's childcare regime: Social liberalism in flux". Canadian Journal of Sociology 29.2 (2004): 193-207.
3. ↑ Michael J. Prince, "Canadian disability activism and political ideas: In and between neo-liberalism and social liberalism". Canadian Journal of Disability Studies 1.1 (2012): 1-34.
4. ↑ Smith, Miriam (2005). "Social Movements and Judicial Empowerment: Courts, Public Policy, and Lesbian and Gay Organizing in Canada". Politics & Society. 33 (2): 327–353. doi:10.1177/0032329205275193. S2CID 154613468.
5. ↑ Amanda Bittner; Royce Koop (1 March 2013). Parties, Elections, and the Future of Canadian Politics. UBC Press. pp. 300–. ISBN 978-0-7748-2411-8.
6. ↑ Andrea Olive (2015). The Canadian Environment in Political Context. University of Toronto Press. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-4426-0871-9.
7. ↑ David Rayside (2011). Faith, Politics, and Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States. UBC Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-7748-2011-0.
8. ↑ Richard Collin; Pamela L. Martin (2012). An Introduction to World Politics: Conflict and Consensus on a Small Planet. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 138. ISBN 978-1-4422-1803-1.
9. ↑ "Liberal Party of Canada Welcomes Liberal International to 2009 Convention". Liberal Party of Canada. March 6, 2009. Archived from the original on August 5, 2012. Retrieved 2012-08-28.
10. ↑ Spencer, Christina (29 January 2014). "Justin Trudeau kicks all 32 Liberal senators out of caucus in bid for reform". National Post. Retrieved 18 October 2015.