query: member_of_political_party raymond bruneau
supports: Raymond Bruneau ( June 12 , 1917 -- July 5 , 1971 ) was an Ontario translator and political figure . He was a member of the Canadian House of Commons representing Prescott and defeating the 24 - year incumbent Liberal MP , Élie - Oscar Bertrand , to sit as an Independent Liberal from 1949 to 1953 . He sat for Glengarry -- Prescott as a Liberal from 1953 to 1957 . He was born in Hawkesbury , Ontario in 1917 , the son of Joseph Bruneau . He studied political science and constitutional law at the University of Ottawa . In 1944 , he married Marie - Thérèse O'Rourke . Bruneau worked in Ottawa as a translator in the federal public service . He was unsuccessful in attempts at reelection in 1957 , 1958 and 1963 . Independent Liberal is a description allowed in politics to denote party affiliation. It is used to designate a politician as a liberal, yet independent of the official Liberal Party of a country. Those parties were the Liberal Party of Canada, or the Liberal Party of the United Kingdom, or the New Zealand Liberal Party. Élie-Oscar Bertrand (March 3, 1894  October 21, 1980) was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Prescott in the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal member from 1929 to 1949. The New Zealand Liberal Party was the first real political party in New Zealand. It governed from 1891 until 1912. The Liberal strategy was to create a large class of small land-owning farmers who supported Liberal ideals, by buying large tracts of Maori land and selling it to small farmers on credit. The First Liberal government also established the basis of the later welfare state, with old age pensions, developed a system for settling industrial disputes, which was accepted by both employers and trade unions. In 1893 it extended voting rights to women, making New Zealand the first country in the world to enact universal female suffrage. The Liberal Party of Canada, colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federal political party in Canada. The party espouses the principles of liberalism, and generally sits at the centre of the Canadian political spectrum. The Liberal Party is traditionally positioned to the left of the Conservative Party of Canada and to the right of the New Democratic Party (NDP).
candidates: conservative party conservative party of canada democratic party independent independent liberal liberal liberal party of canada new zealand liberal party
answer: liberal party of canada