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Laurierite
[< Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 1841-1919, French-Canadian statesman and Prime Minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911]
Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a supporter of the political views and principles of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, specifically with regard to the issue of conscription during World War I.
Quotations
1916
Most of the French-Canadian members were Laurierites out-and-out.
1917
A Borden Government organ gives the Laurierites twelve seats in Ontario, eighteen more than the law allows, to get an even break with the Liberals.