Calling Progressive Conservatives

The rise and dis-mantling of Progressive Conservatism:
Safeguarding the Canadian Dream

Background: The Genesis of Canada

The genesis of Canada was in the mid 1530's (book reference: Canadian Constitutional Development since 1535, Part I, ISBN: 0968190650). 'Canada' as a word, has linguistic roots associated with the Iroquois peoples. The population whose members originally referred to themselves as 'Canadians', embraced the beginnings of a national spirit. Canadians who had embraced the beginnings of a national spirit, sought to rebel against the arbitrary colonial subjugation. These Canadians rebelled against the colonial authorities of imperial France, in what became officially referred to as 'Canada' in the colony of New France. Canadians were a bringing together of aboriginal peoples (including Mohawk and other Iroquois nations) which mixed with migrant peoples who had ancestral ties to France and other societies.

The American Revolution

The 'Canadian Toryism' which was to eventually galvanize the old Conservative Party, had emerged out of the trauma of the American Revolution. 'Loyalists' fled the American Revolution into Canada. These 'Loyalists' endeavoured to inspire Canada as a "Second Empire", that would become a progressive alternative to the United States.

Canada, to "Tory Loyalists", represented the possibilities for the fruition of a spiritually progressive society, inspired by Christianity; and by British values of communality, and tradition. Loyalists feared that the American Revolution would create a society based upon norms rooted in the very traumatized "mob" culture, that had been associated with the violent overthrowing of the British Crown.

The non-American basis of the Canadian identity arose from the popularly held "Canadian Tory" view, that a culture associated with the American Revolution, would continue to lead America to a deplored social malaise and spiritual decline. Canadian Tories, championed the idea of "Peace Order and Good Government" -- associated with loyalty to the British Crown. These Tories, supported the embracing of a community social ethic in Canada, modelled from a perceived enlightened British cultural tradition, as an alternative to the perceived growing "vulgarity" of feared societal norms of an "upstart" American society. The profound economic disparity, poverty, and malaise currently found in American cities provides a vindication for Canadian "Red Tory" fears, embodied in their apparent perception, concerning the represented social dysfunctionality of developed American societal norms.

Sir John A. Macdonald, John Diefenbaker, and the Canadian Dream

Sir John A. Macdonald, embraced a Canadian national spirit which sought to expand to and consolidate a Canadian nation from sea to sea -- as per its early genesis in the 1530's in what is currently the southern part of the Province of Québec, along the St. Lawrence River.

Macdonald, as the Prime Minister of Canada, championed the construction of a transcontinental railway that would facilitate territorial consolidation of the Dominion of Canada.

Sir John A. Macdonald, also realized that "free trade" was part of a proclaimed strategy of American "manifest destiny" against Canada -- that had previously come in the form of a launched military invasion against Canada in 1812.

Macdonald, who became Canada's first Prime Minister, championed a 'National Policy' that had included promises of a national transcontinental railway, as a progressive alternative to so-called "free trade".

The 'Progressive Conservatism', which John Diefenbaker was to embrace, re-captured a pro- Canadian theme of social, cultural, economic, and political sovereignty. John Diefenbaker supported the political idea of what he referred to as a "New National Policy".

The Diefenbaker Progressive "Red Tory" vision took the Progressive Conservative Party that he led, to the largest electoral landslide in Canadian political history. His national vision captured the political imagination of a nation, toward a collective aspiration for the realization of a Canadian Dream.

Cosmopolitan responds to the proposed dissolution of Progressive Conservatism

The new "Conservative Party" has dis-banded the "Tory Loyalists" roots of the former Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

Cosmopolitan embraces the general principles associated with the "conservation of community and noble traditions" which had formed the old Conservative Party that had been led by former Prime Ministers Sir John A. Macdonald and John Diefenbaker.

The Cosmopolitan Party of Canada welcomes participants from the former Progressive Conservative Party who seek to safeguard the sovereignty and independence of Canada as a model progressive society, in defence of Sir John A. Macdonald's political legacy and contributions to the affirmation of a fully independent and sovereign Canada in North America.

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