Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

Progressive Conservative Party
of Ontario

*Parti progressiste-conservateur de l'Ontario*
Progressive Conservative Party; of Ontario Parti progressiste-conservateur de l'Ontario
Abbreviation	PC
Leader	Doug Ford
President	Michael Diamond
House leader	Paul Calandra
Founded	1854; (as Conservative Party of Canada West)
Preceded by	Upper Canada Tories
Headquarters	400-56 Aberfoyle Crescent, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Youth wing	Ontario Young Progressive Conservative Association
Membership (2018)	133,000
Ideology	Conservatism (Canadian); Progressive conservatism; Economic liberalism
Political position	Centre to centre-right
Colours	Blue
Seats in the Legislature	80 / 124
Website
	ontariopc.ca
	Politics of Ontario; Political parties; Elections;

The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (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 centre to centre-right political party in Ontario, Canada.

During its uninterrupted governance from 1943 to 1985, 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 and being 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 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 government spending while balancing the budget through small government. The PCs lost power in 2003; however, they came back into power with a majority government in 2018 under Doug Ford.

^ "Interim Ontario PC leader says party has 67,000 fewer members than claimed". ctvnews.ca. 2 February 2018. Archived from the original on 25 April 2019. Retrieved 4 February 2018.

[1] "Interim Ontario PC leader says party has 67,000 fewer members than claimed". ctvnews.ca. 2 February 2018. Archived from the original on 25 April 2019. Retrieved 4 February 2018.

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