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Also Known As Parti Libéral du Canada • LP
Date 1867 - present
Areas Of Involvement liberalism • left
Related People Justin Trudeau • Wilfrid Laurier • W.L. Mackenzie King • Michael Ignatieff • Pierre Elliott Trudeau • Stéphane Dion • Paul Martin • Mark Carney • René Lévesque • Jean Chrétien • Robert Baldwin • Jean Lesage • Louis Saint Laurent • Walter Lockhart Gordon • John Napier Turner

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