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Bleu

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a Quebec Conservative, so called because the traditional color of the Conservative party is blue.

See: Rouge

Quotations

1885
The Mail is frantic over the defection of the rank and file of the Bleus in Quebec.
1946
Among the French, the word "Bleu" did not necessarily mean "Conservative": George Etienne Cartier insisted on calling himself a "Reformer" as late as 1857, three years after the coalition.
1963
. . . the Quebec voters' traditional loyalties have been strained to the limit and the real tug of war no longer is between the rouges and the bleus--the Liberals and the Tories--but between the "old" and the "new" parties.