Task: Question Answering
Input (English): Context: 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., 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)., Michel Auger ( November 18 , 1830 -- May 12 , 1909 ) was a Canadian politician , farmer and mill owner . He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1882 federal election as an Independent Liberal , representing the riding of Shefford . Born in St. Pie , Lower Canada , Auger was educated at the Grand Ligne Mission School and at the Hamilton Academy in Hamilton , New York . In 1856 , he married Priscilla Nicol . Auger served five years as mayor of Sainte - Prudentienne , a village now within the modern municipality of Roxton Pond . He first ran in the 1878 election as an Independent Liberal in opposition to the party 's incumbent MP Lucius Seth Huntington , but was defeated by Huntington . In 1882 , however , local Conservative supporters swung solidly behind Auger in a bid to punish Huntington for his role in exposing the Pacific Scandal , resulting in Auger 's election . He ran for reelection in the 1887 election as an Independent Liberal , but was defeated by Conservative Antoine Audet . He died in Toronto in 1909 ., 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., Subject: michel auger , Relation: member_of_political_party, Options: (A) conservative party (B) independent (C) independent liberal (D) liberal party (E) liberal party of canada (F) new democratic party (G) the left (H) the right
Output (English): liberal party of canada