Party Conventions and Leadership Debates

From 2000 to 2004, Canada's federal political parties underwent significant changes. Through mergers, leadership races, and policy debates, the major parties defined both themselves and the following decade of Canadian politics. In this selection of key moments from the CPAC archive, watch Stephen Harper reconcile the fractured wings of Canadian conservatism, Paul Martin usher the Liberal Party into a new era following Jean Chrétien's decade, and Jack Layton set the NDP on the track that would eventually see it become the Official Opposition.