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In Canadian politics, aPink Tory is a pejorative term for a liberal member of one of theConservative orProgressive Conservative parties, further to the left than aRed Tory. The term was often derisively applied to the 1971 to 1985Ontario Progressive Conservative government ofBill Davis[1] by critics on the right, particularlyToronto Sun columnistClaire Hoy.[citation needed] The term was used positively byRon Dart to describe the political philosophy ofRobert Stanfield in the 1968 election as a "sort of pink toryism".[2] In 2002,Jim Flaherty described rival leadership contenderErnie Eves as a "pink" Tory.[3]
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