progressive conservative party still exists according to your rump section there are still progressive conservatives who sit in parliament so the party is not dead see the extract below rump pc caucus following the merger a rump progressive conservative caucus remained in parliament consisting of individuals who declined to join the new conservative party in the house of commons joe clark andr bachand and john herron sat as pc members in the election bachand and clark did not to run for re election and herron ran as a liberal losing to rob moore in his riding of fundy royal scott brison who had joined the liberal caucus immediately upon departing the conservative party was reelected as a liberal in the election in the senate william doody lowell murray and norman atkins also declined to join the new party and continue to sit as progressive conservative senators on march prime minister paul martin appointed nine new senators two of whom nancy ruth and elaine mccoy were designated as progressive conservatives thus there may be progressive conservative senators until when mccoy the youngest of the five attains the mandatory retirement age of or later if subsequent senators designate themselves progressive conservatives nancy ruth has since left to sit with the conservative party adding the death of senator doody on december this reduced the number of pc senators to three