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Liberal Party of Ontario

Ontario Liberal Party
Parti libéral de l'Ontario
Active provincial party
President Vince Borg
Premier Kathleen Wynne
Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Dave Levac
Government House Leader Yasir Naqvi
Founded 1857 (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
Website
www.ontarioliberal.ca

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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