Is Conservative Party of Canada left wing or right wing?

On economic organisation Conservative Party of Canada scores +06 on a scale from −10 (common ownership) to +10 (private property and markets). On social and cultural order it scores +05. A single left–right figure combines these and four further measurements that move independently, which is why the atlas reports six.

Is Conservative Party of Canada authoritarian?

On the organisation of power, which measures whether authority is dispersed among institutions that can stop each other or concentrated in a single centre, Conservative Party of Canada scores +01. Federalism with strong provincial autonomy; parliamentary democracy.

Atlas / Organisations / Conservative Party of Canada

Conservative Party of Canada

CPC · 2003– · Canada · Conservative · Electoral party · coding confidence high

+06ECmarket

+05CUtraditional

+01AUmonist

−01SClocal

+04IDascriptive

−05CHlawful

Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →

Core principles

Lower taxes, resource development, provincial jurisdiction, law and order, fiscal restraint.

Economic model

Carbon tax repeal, pipeline approval, deregulation of housing supply, balanced budgets.

Organisation of powers

Federalism with strong provincial autonomy; parliamentary democracy.

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EC · Economic organisation · scored +06

Coded +6: tax reduction, resource development and spending restraint.

Programme textProgramme commitments to repeal the consumer carbon price and to tie infrastructure funding to housing completions.

CU · Social and cultural order · scored +05

Coded +5: socially conservative base with settled liberal law unchallenged.

Documented act or statuteLeadership has stated it will not legislate on abortion, which is unregulated by statute in Canada.

AU · Organisation of power · scored +01

Coded +1: parliamentary, with a 2022 emergency powers dispute.

Documented act or statuteOpposed the invocation of the Emergencies Act in 2022, later found unjustified by the Federal Court.

SC · Scale of decision · scored −01

Coded −1: provincial jurisdiction defended against federal programmes.

Programme textProgramme commitments to end federal conditions on provincial health and housing transfers.

ID · Rule of membership · scored +04

Coded +4: high immigration levels supported historically, with recent restriction.

Documented act or statuteSupported record admissions until 2023 and then called for reductions tied to housing supply.

CH · Method and tempo · scored −05

Coded −5: entirely parliamentary.

Documented act or statuteFormed by merger of two parties in 2003 and has governed and lost office by election.

Nearest organisations by measured distance

Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.

Countries

Canada

Cite this page

Scores are revised on evidence, so a citation should carry the version it refers to. Version 4.3.1 is current; the revision log records every change.

McGrath, K. (2026). Conservative Party of Canada. The Political Atlas, version 4.2. https://thepoliticalatlas.com/organisations/cancpc/ (accessed 2026-08-01).

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