id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8344 Conservatism in Canada - Wikipedia .html text/html 9343 990 58 Most Blue Tories are at least somewhat ideologically aligned close to the economic libertarian positions of the former Canadian Alliance and as such supported the merger between the PCs and the Alliance to form the new federal Conservative Party of Canada (CPC). Historically, Canadian conservatism has been derived from the Tory tradition, with a distinctive concern for a balance between individual rights and collectivism, as mediated through a traditional pre-industrial standard of morality – which has never been as evident in American conservatism.[8] Red Toryism derives largely from a classical conservative tradition that maintained that the unequal division of wealth and political privilege among social classes can be justified if members of the privileged class practiced noblesse oblige and contributed to the common good. Social Conservatives and Party Politics in Canada and the United States (University of Toronto Press, 2012) ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8344.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8344.txt