Parti canadien
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Canadian Party/Patriot Party
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| Founded | 1806 |
| Dissolved | 1837 |
| Succeeded by | Parti rouge |
| Headquarters | Montreal, Quebec |
| Ideology |
Canadian nationalism Canadian reformism Classical liberalism |
| Colours | Green, white, red |
The Parti canadien (French pronunciation: [paʁti kanadjɛ̃]) or Parti patriote (pronounced: [paʁti patʁiɔt]) was a primarily francophone political party in what is now Quebec founded by members of the liberal elite of Lower Canada at the beginning of the 19th century. Its members were made up of liberal professionals and small-scale merchants, including François Blanchet, Pierre-Stanislas Bédard, John Neilson, Jean-Thomas Taschereau, James Stuart, Louis Bourdages, Denis-Benjamin Viger, Daniel Tracey, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, Andrew Stuart and Louis-Joseph Papineau.
The British Government established two oligarchic governments, or councils, to rule what is today Quebec and Ontario, then called Lower and Upper Canada. Upper Canada ruled by the Family Compact and Lower Canada ruled by the Chateau Clique. Both groups exerted monopolistic, un-contested rule over economic and political life. The councils were corrupt in their nature by strengthening their dominance by personal use of funds which eventually led to infrastructural problems around Upper and Lower Canada including, land distribution, poor road conditions and lack of education funding.
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