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For the British party see Liberal Unionist PartyLiberal–Unionists were supporters of the Liberal Party of Canada who as a result of the Conscription Crisis of 1917 rejected Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s leadership and supported the coalition Unionist government of Sir Robert Borden. Much of the Ontario Liberal Party declared themselves to be Liberal–Unionists including provincial party leader Newton Wesley Rowell who joined Borden’s Cabinet and a variety of Liberal MPs.