Liberal Party of Ontario
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Ontario Liberal Party
Parti libéral de l'Ontario |
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| President | Vince Borg |
| Premier | Kathleen Wynne |
| Speaker of the Legislative Assembly | Dave Levac |
| Government House Leader | Yasir Naqvi |
| Founded | 1857 |
| Headquarters | Suite 210 10 St. Mary Street Toronto, Ontario M4Y 1P9 |
| Youth wing | Ontario Young Liberals |
| Ideology | Liberalism |
| Political position | Centre to Centre-left |
| Colours | Red |
| Seats in Legislature |
58 / 107
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| Website | |
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The Ontario Liberal Party (French: Parti libéral de l'Ontario) is a provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. It has formed the Government of Ontario since the provincial election of 2003. The party is ideologically aligned with the Liberal Party of Canada but the two parties are organizationally independent and have separate, though overlapping, memberships. The party is led by Kathleen Wynne, who was sworn in as Premier of Ontario on February 11, 2013 after winning the Ontario Liberal leadership election on January 26, 2013.
The Liberal Party of Ontario is descended from the Reform Party of Robert Baldwin and William Lyon Mackenzie, who argued for responsible government in the 1830s and 1840s against the conservative patrician rule of the Family Compact.
The modern Liberals were founded by George Brown, who sought to rebuild the Reform Party after its collapse in 1854. In 1857, Brown brought together the Reformers and the radical "Clear Grits" of southwestern Ontario to create a new party in Upper Canada with a platform of democratic reform and annexation of the north-west. The party adopted a position in favour of uniting Upper and Lower Canada into the United Province of Canada, a concept that eventually led to Canadian confederation.
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