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Progressive Group For Independent BusinessThe Progressive Group for Independent Business (PGIB) is a right-wing think-tank and business lobby group that carried some influence on the policies of the Common Sense Revolution platform that propulted Ontario PC Party leader Mike Harris to provincial government. The PGIB also carried some influence on the Reform Party in its 1995 campaign "Focus Federally for Reform (FFR)." FFR encouraged the Reform Party not to create provincial parties and risk splitting the right-wing provincial vote in provinces. The CEO of the PGIB is Craig Chandler, a Evangelical Christian conservative. In 1997, under the direction of Chandler, the PGIB organized a controversial "Unite the Right" conference in Hamilton, Ontario. The conference attracted negative media attention for not just including low-level delegates from the Reform and Progressive Conservative Parties but also top officials from the far-right federal Christian Heritage Party of Canada and Confederation of Regions Party and the Freedom Party of Ontario. In 2003 the PGIB launched the "2cards.ca" initiative that called for a United Alternative. Chandler ran as the PGIB candidate in the 2003 Progressive Conservative leadership convention. In recent years, the PGIB has turned its associations across Canada towards local politics and community activism. Several Municipal Councillors in Western Canada have been successfully elected with PGIB managed political campaigns and platforms.
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