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old-line party 
either the Liberal or the Progressive Conservative Party, as opposed to more recently founded smaller parties on the Canadian political scene.
See also: old party
- 1963 Hamilton, the city that bucked the Golden Horseshoe swing to Liberalism in the last election, is the question mark to both old line parties in this one.
- 1963 . . . when he turns his oratorical thunder against the "old-line parties," almost all the thunderbolts are aimed at Lester Pearson and his followers.
- 1963 Hamilton, the city that bucked the Golden Horseshoe swing to Liberalism in the last election, is the question mark to both old line parties in this one.