Hartz has argued correctly that it is characteristic of fragment societies to be intolerant of rival ideologies. Our argument is that Canada is not a fragment society, but exhibits the ideological diversity of European societies, although it has a more liberal cast. This toleration, born of the necessity to live with and listen to the other voices in the ideological conversation, has deeply affected Canadian political life. Thus, we have noted a willingness in all of the major Canadian ideologies to be open, sometimes too open, to developments elsewhere. Canadian Liberalism had, by the 1919 convention, accepted the modifications of liberalism suggested in Britain by Green and Hobhouse, and had begun to develop a form of welfare liberalism in this country. The Conservative Party willingly accepted the lead of Disraeli and the British Tory Party in the nineteenth century. More recently, it has turned its attention to the United States,… (Christian and Campbell, 1990, p.283)