The Canadian inspiration for Britain's surging right-wing Reform party - CBC

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• – The Reform Party of Canada, led by Preston Manning, was a right-wing political party in Canada that gained popularity in the 1980s and 1990s.
• – The party advocated for free market economics and limited government intervention in the economy, and it was a major force in Canadian politics for over two decades.
• – The party's ideology and policies influenced the rise of the Reform Party of British Columbia and Alberta, which eventually merged with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to form the modern Conservative Party of Canada.