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The Parti rouge (alternatively known as the parti democratique) was formed in what is now Quebec, Canada, around 1848 by radical French-Canadians inspired by the ideas of Louis-Joseph Papineau, the Institut canadien de Montréal, and the Patriotes Movement of the 1830s.
The party was a successor to the Parti patriote. The radical reformist rouges did not believe that the 1840 Union Act had truly granted a responsible government to former Upper and Lower Canada. They advocated important democratic reforms, republicanism, separation of the state and the church. They were perceived as anti-clerical. Some of its members desired the abolition of the semi- feudal seigneurial system of land ownership.
They opposed the union of Upper Canada and Lower Canada into the United Province of Canada, and demanded its termination. When talks for Canadian confederation began, its members either opposed the idea, or suggested a decentralized confederation. They were opposed to the ultramontane politics of the CatholicGeneral meaning Catholic means universal or whole''. With respect to the Christian Church, the early Christians used the term to refer to the whole undivided church. It is in that sense that all Christians today claim ownership of the term, including Prot clergyClergy is the generic term used to describe the formal religious leadership within a given religion. The term comes from Greek κληρος (fortune, or metaphorically, heritage). Depending on the religion, clergy usually tak of Quebec and the Parti bleuThe parti bleu was a moderate political group in Quebec, Canada that was formed around 1850. It was based on the moderate reformist views of Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, and was a rival to the radical parti rouge. The party derived much of its support from.
For a short period, the elected rouges allied with the Clear GritsClear Grits were Upper Canadian reformers with support concentrated among southwestern Ontario farmers, who were frustrated and disillusioned by the 1849 Reform government of Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine's lack of radicalism. The Clear Gr in the legislature of the united province of Canada. The coalition government it produced quickly collapsed. After the failure of most of the party's political actions, its more moderate members joined the Liberal Party of CanadaLiberal Party of Canada Current Leader Paul Martin Founded July 1, 1867 (nation's founding) Headquarters Suite 40081 Metcalfe Street Ottawa, OntarioK1P 6M8 Colours Red Political ideology liberal International alignment Liberal International The Liberal Pa or the Parti libéral du Québec.