Canadian Future Party
political party in Canada
The Canadian Future Party (CFP; Canadian French: Parti avenir canadien, PAC) is a federal political party in Canada that was founded in September 2023 and officially launched in August 2024. It describes itself as being politically centrist, campaigning on a economically liberal and socially liberal platform. The party's founding leader is Dominic Cardy, a former Progressive Conservative cabinet minister in New Brunswick who had previously led the New Brunswick New Democratic Party.
History
The Canadian Future Party emerged from the Centre Ice Conservatives who were co-founded by former Conservative leadership candidate Rick Peterson in April 2022 as a pressure group within the Conservative Party of Canada in the lead up to the 2022 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election. Their aim was to moderate the rightward shift the party was on. Centre-right Conservatives initially included figures such as former BC Liberal premier Christy Clark, former Conservative minister Peter Kent and National Post columnist Tasha Kheiriddin as supporters. The group left the party as a result of the election of Pierre Poilievre as leader and changed its name to Centre Ice Canadians in an attempt to appeal to disaffected Liberals as well as Conservatives.
On September 20, 2023, it was announced that, after months of discussion, the group would be forming a political party to contest elections. Former New Brunswick cabinet minister Dominic Cardy became interim leader of the party. On February 6, 2024, it was announced that Denis Blanchette had joined their national council.
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