formerly, the official name for one of the political groups in Canada, later used informally for the Liberal-Conservative Party and nowadays for the Progressive Conservative Party.
- 1852  The colored people were in former times, generally supposed to vote with the Conservative party, from a belief, unfounded it is true, that the Reformers were disposed towards Annexation.
- 1963  "It's a queer campaign," key figures in the Liberal, Conservative and New Democratic Parties have commented in almost identical terms in the north.