{"id":37582,"date":"2019-01-18T01:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37582"},"modified":"2018-12-28T09:34:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T14:34:25","slug":"qotd-political-colours-in-the-us-and-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/01\/18\/qotd-political-colours-in-the-us-and-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Political colours in the US and Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We, Conservatives, were a coalition from the very beginning, in Canada. We were, of course, the Liberal-Conservative Party under Sir John A, reflecting the alliances formed between Ontario and Atlantic Canadian Tories and Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine\u2019s moderate <em>Parti bleu<\/em> in Quebec. This was in contrast to the Liberals who were formed by the Clear Grits from Upper Canada and the Papineau\u2019s radical <em>Parti rouge<\/em> in Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>(So Quebec has always been central to both Conservative and Liberal political success in Canada and it was Quebec that gave us our modern Conservative blue and Liberal red icons ~ which are opposite to the Democratic blue and Republican red in the USA.)<\/p>\n<p>Ted Campbell, <a href=\"https:\/\/coloneltedcampbell.blog\/2017\/03\/06\/our-conservative-roots\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Our Conservative Roots&#8221;, <em>Ted Campbell&#8217;s Point of View<\/em><\/a>, 2017-03-05.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We, Conservatives, were a coalition from the very beginning, in Canada. We were, of course, the Liberal-Conservative Party under Sir John A, reflecting the alliances formed between Ontario and Atlantic Canadian Tories and Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine\u2019s moderate Parti bleu in Quebec. This was in contrast to the Liberals who were formed by the Clear Grits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,53,41],"tags":[431,613,908,113],"class_list":["post-37582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-history","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-conservatism","tag-johnamacdonald","tag-liberalparty","tag-quebec"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9Ma","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37583,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37582\/revisions\/37583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}