The Reform Party is formed
• Other party platforms included free trade, minimizing and decentralizing the role of government in general, and opposition to Quebec's demands for special status.
• In the fall of 1987, the new party was officially named The Reform Party of Canada, and Preston Manning was chosen as its leader.
• A decade later, in June of 1997, Manning's Reform Party became the Official Opposition.
• In 2000, the Reform Party dissolved into a new party: The Canadian Alliance. Manning ceased to be leader with the dissolution of the Reform Party, and Alberta's Stockwell Day was chosen to lead the Canadian Alliance.
• In December 2003, the Alliance merged with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to become the Conservative Party of Canada. In the spring of 2004, Stephen Harper became leader of the newly merged party. Two years later, Harper was elected Canada's 22nd prime minister.
Program: The National
Broadcast Date: May 31, 1987
Guest(s): Preston Manning, Murray Smith
Anchor: Peter Mansbridge
Reporter: Whit Fraser
Duration: 1:56
Last updated: May 30, 2014
Page consulted on May 30, 2014
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