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Originally posted by XOMichelle
CC1CG-
Like Optimist said, progressive is being more liberal. The term comes from the progressive movement in the early part of the 19th century (strange, it wasn't all that progressive, but it took a few good steps).
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I think you might have misread his post my friend - Nick wasn't implying that Progressivism was on the "right" of the political spectrum, not at all.
What he said was, if you view a "progressive" gov't (note the lower-case "P") as one with more political involvement, then you'd be correct in that assumption (also note that, in terms of colloquial usage of lower-case "progressive" as "making progress", this is still up for debate). He then went to point out that, as it pertains to Canadian government, this would be on the (traditionally) 'left' portion of the scale - as opposed to the Canadian political party, the
Progressive Conservative Party, whose views would tend to be more to the right end of the scale (if my grasp of Canadian politics is up-to-date - Canadians please correct). Make sense? CC1GC is a fairly bright dude when he's off the sauce, I think this is what he was referencing.
PS - check a cite here:
PC Party