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Paternalistic conservatives in Canada and the United Kingdom

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A **Red Tory** is an adherent of a [centre-right](/source/Centre-right_politics) or [paternalistic-conservative](/source/Paternalistic_conservatism) political philosophy derived from the [Tory](/source/Tory) tradition. It is most predominant in Canada; however, it is also found in the United Kingdom, where it is more commonly known as [one nation conservatism](/source/One_nation_conservatism). This philosophy tends to favour communitarian social policies, while maintaining a degree of fiscal discipline and a respect of social and political order. It is contrasted with "[Blue Tory](/source/Blue_Tory)" or "[High Tory](/source/High_Tory)". Some Red Tories view themselves as [small-c conservatives](/source/Small-c_conservative).

In Canada, Red Toryism is found in provincial and federal Conservative political parties. The history of Red Toryism marks differences in the development of the [political cultures of Canada](/source/Political_culture_of_Canada) and the [United States](/source/Political_culture%3AUnited_States#Political_culture). [Canadian conservatism](/source/Conservatism_in_Canada) and [American conservatism](/source/Conservatism_in_the_United_States) have been different from each other in fundamental ways, including their stances on social issues and the role of government in society.[1]

Red Tory governments in Canada, such as those of [John A. Macdonald](/source/John_A._Macdonald), [Robert Borden](/source/Robert_Borden), and [John Diefenbaker](/source/John_Diefenbaker), were known for supporting an [active role](/source/Economic_interventionism) for the government in the economy. This included the creation of government-[owned and operated](/source/State-owned_enterprise) [Crown Corporations](/source/Crown_corporations_of_Canada) such as the [Canadian National Railway](/source/Canadian_National_Railway), and the development and protection of Canadian industries with programs such as the [National Policy](/source/National_Policy).

The adjective "red" refers to the economically left-leaning and overall [centrist](/source/Centrism) nature of Red Toryism in comparison with Blue Toryism, since socialist and other leftist parties have traditionally used the [colour red](/source/Political_colour#Red).[2] In Canada today, red is commonly associated with the [Liberal Party](/source/Liberal_Party_of_Canada). The term reflects the broad ideological range traditionally found within conservatism in Canada.

## Canada

Further information: [Conservatism in Canada](/source/Conservatism_in_Canada)

### Philosophy

Historically, Canadian conservatism has been derived from the [Tory](/source/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.[3]

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](/source/Noblesse_oblige)* and contributed to the common good. Red Tories supported traditional institutions such as religion and the monarchy, and maintenance of the social order. This position was later manifested in their support for some aspects of the [welfare state](/source/Welfare_state). This belief in a common good, as expanded on in Colin Campbell and [William Christian](/source/William_Christian_(political_scientist))'s *Political Parties and Ideologies in Canada*, is at the root of Red Toryism.

### Origins

In distinction to the American experience where [class divisions](/source/Social_stratification) were seen as undemocratic (although still existing), Canadian Tories adopted a more [paternalistic](/source/Paternalism) view of government. Monarchy, public order and good government – understood as dedication to the common good – preceded, moderated and balanced a belief in individual rights and liberty. Anthony Hall has argued that Red Toryism in Canada developed specifically in opposition to the American Revolution and its ideology.

Richard Hooker (1554–1600)

This type of Canadian conservatism is derived largely from the Tory tradition developed by English conservative thinkers and statesmen such as [Richard Hooker](/source/Richard_Hooker); the [seventh Earl of Shaftesbury](/source/Anthony_Ashley-Cooper%2C_7th_Earl_of_Shaftesbury); and [Benjamin Disraeli](/source/Benjamin_Disraeli), later the first Earl of Beaconsfield. The primary influences on Canadian Toryism in the Victorian age were Disraeli's [One Nation Conservatism](/source/One-nation_conservatism) and the radical Toryism advocated by [Lord Randolph Churchill](/source/Lord_Randolph_Churchill). Inherent in these Tory traditions was the ideal of *[noblesse oblige](/source/Noblesse_oblige)* and a conservative [communitarianism](/source/Communitarianism).

In Victorian times, these ideas were the pre-eminent strains of conservative thought in the British Empire, and were advanced by many in the Tory faction of [John A. Macdonald](/source/John_A._Macdonald)'s conservative coalition in the Canadas. None of this lineage denies that Tory traditions of communitarianism and [collectivism](/source/Collectivism_and_individualism) had existed in the British North American colonies since the Loyalist exodus from the American colonies between 1776 and 1796. It is this aspect that is one of the primary points of difference between the conservative political cultures of Canada and the United States.[4]

The explicit notion of a "Red" Toryism was developed by [Gad Horowitz](/source/Gad_Horowitz) in the 1960s, who argued that there was a significant Tory ideology in Canada.[5] This vision contrasted Canada with the United States, which was seen as lacking this collectivist tradition because it was expunged from the American political culture after the [American Revolution](/source/American_Revolution) and the exodus of the [United Empire Loyalists](/source/United_Empire_Loyalist). Horowitz argued that Canada's stronger [socialist](/source/Socialism) movement grew from [Toryism](/source/Tory), and that this explains why socialism has never had much electoral success in the United States. This also meant that Canadian conceptions of liberty were more collective and communitarian, and could be seen as more directly derivative of the [English tradition](/source/Fundamental_Laws_of_England), than that of American practices and theories.

Horowitz identified [George Grant](/source/George_Grant_(philosopher)) and [Eugene Forsey](/source/Eugene_Forsey) as exemplars of this strain of thought, which saw a central role for Christianity in public affairs and was profoundly critical of capitalism and the dominant business *élites*. Forsey became a [Co-operative Commonwealth Federation](/source/Co-operative_Commonwealth_Federation) (CCF) member, while Grant remained a Conservative – although he became disdainful of an overall shift in policy toward liberal economics and [continentalism](/source/Continentalism), something Forsey saw happening decades earlier. When the Conservative government of [John Diefenbaker](/source/John_Diefenbaker) fell in 1963, largely due to [the BOMARC controversy](/source/Canada_in_the_Cold_War), Grant wrote *[Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism](/source/Lament_for_a_Nation)*, a book about the nature of traditional Canadian nationhood and independence that would become a [lodestar](/source/Guiding_principle) of Red Toryism. Grant defined an essential difference between the founding of the Canadian and American nations when he wrote "Canada was predicated on the rights of nations as well as on the rights of individuals."[6] This definition recognized Canada's multi-faceted founding nature as an English-speaking, aboriginal and [Francophone](/source/Francophone) nation.

### Predominance and decline

Sir Robert Borden (1915)

Many of the [Progressive Conservative Party of Canada](/source/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Canada)'s leaders have been labelled 'Red Tories', including [Sir Robert Borden](/source/Robert_Borden), [John Diefenbaker](/source/John_Diefenbaker), [Robert Stanfield](/source/Robert_Stanfield) and [Joe Clark](/source/Joe_Clark). Many others have been influential as cabinet ministers and thinkers, such as [Davie Fulton](/source/Davie_Fulton), [Dalton Camp](/source/Dalton_Camp), [Roy McMurtry](/source/Roy_McMurtry) and [John Farthing](/source/John_Farthing).[4] The main bastions of Red Toryism were Ontario, the Atlantic provinces and urban Manitoba, areas where the Red Tories dominated provincial politics, and in some federal elections Quebec, where the federal PC party operated largely separately from provincial politics. During 42 years, the [Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario](/source/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Ontario) was led by Red Tories such as [George A. Drew](/source/George_A._Drew), [Leslie Frost](/source/Leslie_Frost), [John Robarts](/source/John_Robarts) and [Bill Davis](/source/Bill_Davis), all of which supported increased funding for infrastructure, health care and education. Throughout the [Atlantic provinces](/source/Atlantic_Canada), traditional Red Tories are the dominant force in the provincial Progressive Conservative parties because of their support of the [welfare state](/source/Welfare_state). As premier of Nova Scotia from 1956 to 1967, Red Tory Robert Stanfield introduced reforms for education, health care and civil liberties. The [Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta](/source/Progressive_Conservative_Association_of_Alberta) included a broad spectrum from Red Tories to social conservatives, but [Peter Lougheed](/source/Peter_Lougheed) who led the party from 1968 to 1985 and was Premier from 1971 to 1985 was a Red Tory and Lougheed's tenure was characterized by active economic measures and social reforms. In the 50's and 60's, Manitoba saw great prosperity in economic and social reforms thanks to the leadership of Premier [Dufferin Roblin](/source/Dufferin_Roblin), a Red Tory, who governed to the left of the previous government led by [Douglas Campbell](/source/Douglas_Lloyd_Campbell), the leader of the [Liberal-Progressive](/source/Manitoba_Liberal_Party) coalition.

The dominance of Red Toryism can be seen as a part of the international [post-war consensus](/source/Post-war_consensus) that saw the welfare state embraced by the major parties of most of the western world. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, however, the federal Progressive Conservative Party suffered a string of electoral defeats under Red Tory leaders Robert Stanfield and Joe Clark. Pressure began to grow within the party for a new approach. Clark's leadership was successfully challenged, and in the [1983 PC leadership convention](/source/1983_Progressive_Conservative_leadership_election), members endorsed [Brian Mulroney](/source/Brian_Mulroney) who rejected free trade with the United States as proposed by another Blue Tory candidate, [John Crosbie](/source/John_Crosbie). Despite this early perception, the eagerness in which Mulroney's ministry embraced the [Macdonald Commission](/source/Macdonald_Commission)'s advocacy of bilateral free trade would come to indicate a sharp drift toward [libertarian](/source/Right-libertarianism) or [liberal economic](/source/Economic_liberalism) policies, comparable to such contemporaries as [Ronald Reagan](/source/Ronald_Reagan) and [Margaret Thatcher](/source/Margaret_Thatcher).

Following Mulroney, the Canadian conservative movement suffered a profound schism in the [1993 election](/source/1993_Canadian_federal_election), splitting into the distinct Progressive Conservative and Reform parties. The Red Tory tradition remained loyal to the Progressive Conservatives, while many "blue" Tories aligned with [social conservatives](/source/Social_conservatism) in the [Reform Party](/source/Reform_Party_of_Canada). Various [Unite the Right](/source/Unite_the_Right_(Canada)) efforts achieved only modest success in the 1990s and early 2000s – most notably, while the creation of the [Canadian Alliance](/source/Canadian_Alliance) in 2000 attracted a small number of Progressive Conservatives, it failed to attract those in the Red Tory tradition or to replace the Progressive Conservatives.

Following the victory of [Peter MacKay](/source/Peter_MacKay) at the [2003 PC convention](/source/2003_Progressive_Conservative_leadership_election), and in violation of an informal contract signed with rival candidate [David Orchard](/source/David_Orchard), MacKay merged the Tories with [Stephen Harper](/source/Stephen_Harper)'s Alliance to create the modern federal [Conservative Party](/source/Conservative_Party_of_Canada) in 2003. When first created, one of the most important issues facing the Conservative Party was what Red Tories would do. The union resulted in a number of Red Tories leaving the new party, either to retire or to cross the floor to the [Liberal Party](/source/Liberal_Party_of_Canada). [Members of Parliament](/source/Member_of_parliament) (MPs) [André Bachand](/source/Andr%C3%A9_Bachand_(Progressive_Conservative_MP)), [John Herron](/source/John_Herron_(New_Brunswick_politician)), Joe Clark and [Scott Brison](/source/Scott_Brison) declined to join the new party – Brison immediately crossed the floor to the Liberals, Bachand and Clark sat out the remainder of the [37th Canadian Parliament](/source/37th_Canadian_Parliament) as Progressive Conservatives and then retired from office in the [2004 election](/source/2004_Canadian_federal_election), and Herron sat as a Progressive Conservative for the remainder of the term but then ran for re-election in 2004 as a Liberal.

Clark, a former Prime Minister, gave a tepid endorsement to the Liberals in the 2004 election, calling [Paul Martin](/source/Paul_Martin) "the devil we know".[7] [Rick Borotsik](/source/Rick_Borotsik) joined the new party but openly criticized it from within, did not run for re-election in 2004, and also publicly endorsed the Liberals over the Conservatives during the campaign. Additionally, three of the twenty-six Progressive Conservative [Senators](/source/Senate_of_Canada), [Lowell Murray](/source/Lowell_Murray), [Norman Atkins](/source/Norman_Atkins) and [William Doody](/source/C._William_Doody), decided to continue serving as Progressive Conservatives, rejecting membership in the new party. Atkins, who died in 2010, remained allied with the still-existent [Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario](/source/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Ontario), and Murray, from Atlantic Canada, opposed the merger of the federal PC party. Most, like prominent Senator [Marjory LeBreton](/source/Marjory_LeBreton), came to endorse the new party and have been vocal and visible supporters of the party both between and during elections. [Elaine McCoy](/source/Elaine_McCoy) and [Nancy Ruth](/source/Nancy_Ruth) were later appointed to the Senate by Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin, and chose to designate themselves as Progressive Conservatives. Doody has since died, and Ruth joined the Conservative Party caucus in 2006.

Despite the union, some former Progressive Conservative members still identify themselves as Red Tory, including high-profile political strategist turned Senator [Hugh Segal](/source/Hugh_Segal), who in 2013 continued to describe himself as a Red Tory, which has put him at increasing odds with the government on several occasions.[8]

A 'grassroots' movement of dissenting Red Tories, who opposed the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada's merger with the Canadian Alliance, gathered signatures on [Elections Canada](/source/Elections_Canada) forms from over 200 Progressive Conservative members and applied to re-register as the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. This name was refused by Elections Canada. Having anticipated such a rejection, the coordinators had had the 'SignaTories' also sign a second application to at least continue with the ballot name "PC Party". On March 26, 2004, the [Progressive Canadian Party](/source/Progressive_Canadian_Party) was registered with Elections Canada. It aimed to be perceived as a continuation of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, but achieved only very minor results. The party achieved its largest vote to date in the [2006 election](/source/2006_Canadian_federal_election), with 14,151 votes in [25 ridings](/source/Progressive_Canadian_Party_candidates_in_the_2006_Canadian_federal_election) (about 0.1% of the nationwide total). The party was deregistered by the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada on November 30, 2019, for failing to comply with [Canada Elections Act](/source/Canada_Elections_Act) requirements set out in subsection 415(1).[9][10]

### Revival in provincial politics

With the rise of the conservative [Wildrose Party](/source/Wildrose_Party) in Alberta in the 2010s, the term "Red Tory" was revived as a name for the moderate wing of the [Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta](/source/Progressive_Conservative_Association_of_Alberta), which was seen to gain power under the premiership of [Ed Stelmach](/source/Ed_Stelmach) and [Alison Redford](/source/Alison_Redford). As premier, Redford was closely associated with centrist Tories such as [Joe Clark](/source/Joe_Clark) and [Peter Lougheed](/source/Peter_Lougheed), whereas [Danielle Smith](/source/Danielle_Smith)—the then Wildrose leader—was associated with the right-wing Tories [Ralph Klein](/source/Ralph_Klein) and [Tom Flanagan](/source/Tom_Flanagan_(political_scientist)). Redford was called a "Red Tory" by [Chantal Hébert](/source/Chantal_H%C3%A9bert),[11] [Ezra Levant](/source/Ezra_Levant)[12] and others in the media.[13]

The [Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia](/source/Progressive_Conservative_Association_of_Nova_Scotia) under [Tim Houston](/source/Tim_Houston), branding themselves as Red Tories, won a majority government in the [2021 Nova Scotia general election](/source/2021_Nova_Scotia_general_election).[14] Houston's Progressive Conservatives campaigned on using provincial resources to improve healthcare services.[15]

## United Kingdom

Further information: [Conservatism in the United Kingdom](/source/Conservatism_in_the_United_Kingdom)

In 2009, [Phillip Blond](/source/Phillip_Blond) promoted [communitarian](/source/Communitarianism) [traditionalist conservative](/source/Traditionalist_conservatism) ideas within the [Conservative Party](/source/Conservative_Party_(UK)) with a book titled *Red Tory: How Left and Right Have Broken Britain and How We Can Fix It* and by creating the think-tank [ResPublica](/source/ResPublica).[16][17] Leader of the Conservative Party [David Cameron](/source/David_Cameron) spoke at ResPublica's launch and Red Tory ideas were said to be a major influence on him.[18]

In [Scotland](/source/Scotland), the term "Red Tory" has been used to describe the [Scottish Labour Party](/source/Scottish_Labour),[19] who some see as assisting with, or failing to oppose, certain [Conservative](/source/Conservative_Party_(UK)) policies.[20] The term was first used in this context by [Scottish independence](/source/Scottish_independence) supporters, following Labour's participation in the [Better Together](/source/Better_Together_(campaign)) campaign in opposition to Scottish independence alongside the Conservatives and [Liberal Democrats](/source/Scottish_Liberal_Democrats) during the [2014 Scottish independence referendum](/source/2014_Scottish_independence_referendum).[21]

Evolving from the Scottish usage of the term, the term, along with the terms [Blairite](/source/Blairism), [Brownite](/source/Brownism) and "[centrist](/source/Centrism)", have been used, particularly on social media by members on the political left of the Labour Party to refer to MPs and Labour Party figures who withheld support for [Jeremy Corbyn](/source/Jeremy_Corbyn), the former Labour leader from 2015 to 2020.[22][23] The term has also been used as a pejorative against current Labour leader [Keir Starmer](/source/Keir_Starmer), who has been seen by some to have moved the party too far away from traditional left-wing positions.[24][25]

## Definitional drift

Phillip Blond in 2018

The term *Red Tory* is often used today in the [Canadian media](/source/Media_of_Canada) not to refer to those in the tradition of George Grant, Dalton Camp or Robert Stanfield, but simply to moderates in the conservative movement, particularly those who reject or do not sufficiently embrace [social conservatism](/source/Social_conservatism). For example, in the [2004 Conservative Party leadership election](/source/2004_Conservative_Party_of_Canada_leadership_election), [Tony Clement](/source/Tony_Clement) was sometimes referred to as a Red Tory even though he advocated privatization, tax cuts and the curtailment of social and economic development spending. Traditional Red Tories would reject most if not all of these stances.

More recently, [Phillip Blond](/source/Phillip_Blond), director of British think tank ResPublica, has gained traction with his so-called Red Tory thesis which criticizes what he refers to as the welfare state and the market state. [Phillip Blond](/source/Phillip_Blond) promotes a radical [communitarian](/source/Communitarianism) [traditionalist conservatism](/source/Traditionalist_conservatism). It inveighs against welfare states as well as market monopolies and instead respects traditional values and institutions, [localism](/source/Localism_(politics)), devolution of powers from the central governments to local communities, small businesses, and volunteerism. Blond also favours empowering [social enterprises](/source/Social_enterprise), charities and other elements of civil society to solve problems such as poverty.[26] He has been mentioned as a major influence on the thinking of [David Cameron](/source/David_Cameron) and other Tories in the wake of the 2008 credit crisis. He advocates a civic state as the ideal, where the common good of society is valued and solutions emerge from local communities.[27] Blond's ideas also parallel the socioeconomic tradition of [distributism](/source/Distributism), as is evidenced by Blond's appearance at a distributist conference at [Oxford University](/source/University_of_Oxford) in 2009 sponsored by the [G. K. Chesterton](/source/G._K._Chesterton) Institute for Faith and Culture.[28] Blond's Red Toryism has been embraced by [traditionalist conservatives](/source/Traditionalist_conservatism_in_the_United_States) in the United States, such as economist John Medaille.[29]

The editors of the web log *Front Porch Republic*, however, define Red Toryism as a "*left* or [*socialist* conservatism](/source/Right-wing_socialism)" and further go on to say that it is "not a traditionalism that happened to oddly pick up a few egalitarian rhetorical tropes along the way."[30] This is more in keeping with the typical dictionary definition of the term as: "(Canadian) a Conservative who holds liberal or mildly socialist views on certain fiscal and social issues."[31] In this regard, Phillip Blond's views are probably closer to what has been referred to as [High Tory](/source/High_Tory).

## See also

- [Canada portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Canada)
- [United Kingdom portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:United_Kingdom)
- [Politics portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Politics)
- [Conservatism portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Conservatism)

- [Blue Grit](/source/Blue_Grit)

- [Moderates](/source/Moderates_(Liberal_Party_of_Australia))

- [Blue Labour](/source/Blue_Labour)

- [One-nation conservatism](/source/One-nation_conservatism)

- [Robert Muldoon](/source/Robert_Muldoon)

- [Pink Tory](/source/Pink_Tory)

- [Paternalistic conservatism](/source/Paternalistic_conservatism)

- [Rockefeller Republican](/source/Rockefeller_Republican)

- [Tory socialism](/source/Tory_socialism)

- [Wets and dries](/source/Wets_and_dries)

- [Communitarianism](/source/Communitarianism)

- [Christian democracy](/source/Christian_democracy)

- [Republican In Name Only](/source/Republican_In_Name_Only)

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## Bibliography

Farney, James; Rayside, David (2013). *Conservatism in Canada*. University of Toronto Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-4426-1456-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4426-1456-7).

## Further reading

- Farthing, J. *Freedom Wears a Crown*

- Grant, George Parkin. *Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism* (1965)

- Horowitz, Gad. "Conservatism, Liberalism and Socialism in Canada: An Interpretation." *Canadian Journal of Political Science* (1966).

- Taylor, Charles. *Radical Tories.*

- [Dart, Ron](/source/Ron_Dart). *The Canadian High Tory Tradition: Raids on the Unspeakable* (2004)

- Campbell, Colin [John]. *CTtheory.net*. [*Gad Horowitz Interviewed by Colin Campbell*.](http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=397) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20180121125918/http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=397) January 21, 2018, at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine).

- Blond, Phillip. *Red Tory: How Left and Right Have Broken Britain and How We Can Fix It*. [Faber](/source/Faber_and_Faber) (2010). [Review](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/7521481/Red-Tory-How-Left-and-Right-Have-Broken-Britain-and-How-We-Can-Fix-it-by-Phillip-Blond-review.html) in *[The Daily Telegraph](/source/The_Daily_Telegraph)* March 27, 2010; [Review](http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n08/jonathan-raban/camerons-crank) in *[London Review of Books](/source/London_Review_of_Books)* April 22, 2010

- Judge, Tony. *Tory Socialism: Robert Blatchford and Merrie England* (2013)

- Woodfinden, Benjamin L. ["The Enduring Appeal Of Red Toryism"](https://c2cjournal.ca/2020/01/fbp-future-of-conservatism-series-part-i-thfuture-of-conservatism-series-part-i-the-enduring-appeal-of-red-toryism/) January 18, 2020

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