DCHP-3

old-line party

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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either the Liberal or the Progressive Conservative Party, as opposed to more recently founded smaller parties on the Canadian political scene.

Quotations

1963
. . . when he turns his oratorical thunder against the "old-line parties," almost all the thunderbolts are aimed at Lester Pearson and his followers.
1963
Hamilton, the city that bucked the Golden Horseshoe swing to Liberalism in the last election, is the question mark to both old line parties in this one.