Housing First How many people are homeless in Canada? Ending Homelessness Cost Analysis. Poverty Hub. Knowledge Mobilization. British Columbia. New Brunswick. Newfoundland and Labrador. Northwest Territories. Nova Scotia. Prince Edward Island. Yukon Territory. It has warned of the dangers of the weaponization of space and American lobbying to have Canada join the North American anti-ballistic missile system. Throughout its history, the NDP has been critical about the high rate of foreign, particularly American, ownership of Canadian industry.
Following its electoral setback, the federal NDP sought to rebuild organizationally and sponsored policy conferences in an attempt to re-energize itself and its platform.
One innovation employed in was to elect its next leader by means of a two-step process — first involving a direct ballot of party members and affiliated unions and then followed by a national convention.
The new leader, Alexa McDonough , led the NDP into the campaign with the challenge of regaining official parliamentary status for the party. The election saw the party slip in both votes and seats, narrowly retaining official party status in Parliament.
To facilitate the renewal process, McDonough stepped down as leader. In a nation-wide direct ballot, individual and affiliated union members elected Layton the new federal NDP leader. Leading up to the campaign, the energetic Layton attracted media attention and the party rose in the polls. Some Ottawa reporters joked in the press that Layton never met a camera he did not like.
In the election, the NDP recorded its best vote count in more than a decade almost doubling its votes to The NDP also successfully lobbied the Liberal government of Paul Martin to resist involvement in the US missile defence system and to pass the same-sex marriage legislation. In the election, the NDP under Layton continued to make gains in votes and seats.
One of the greatest organizational difficulties for the NDP was the election finances legislation, which virtually eliminated trade union financial contributions to the party that labour co-founded. The legislation strictly limited corporate and union contributions to individual candidates.
In , all such contributions were banned. Instead, parties received public funding based on the number of votes they had received in the previous general election. This subsidy ended in ; see Political Party Financing in Canada. Another challenge emerged during the election when Canadian Auto Workers CAW president Buzz Hargrove called for union members to vote strategically. He urged unionists and others, where necessary, not to vote NDP, but instead to vote Liberal, in order to stop a Conservative Party victory.
The party continued to make strides in the areas of peacekeeping overseas, environmental issues and amendments to the Clean Air Act, and in the issue of residential schools , which resulted in an apology from the federal government in June The federal election that year returned the NDP to Ottawa with a stronger team to take on the larger Liberal opposition party and to exert pressure against the Conservative Party.
The NDP pushed the Conservatives on issues that included health care wait times, global warming, jobs and affordability. The leaders of the other three parties responded by announcing that they could not support such measures. In early December , they signed an accord for an agreement on a coalition government. Except for inside Quebec, popular opinion across the nation was opposed to the coalition. Prime Minister Stephen Harper applied to the governor general to prorogue Parliament until January, when he would introduce the new budget; on 4 December, Jean granted his request.
Dion was replaced as leader of the Liberal party by Michael Ignatieff before the issue of a coalition was resolved. Layton, opposing the Conservative budget, urged the Liberal Party to unseat the Conservatives before the coalition expired, but on 28 January Ignatieff agreed to support the Conservative budget, thereby ending any possibility of a coalition. In the subsequent March election, Layton led the NDP to a record number of seats in the House of Commons and the role of official opposition.
Layton had announced in February that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Yet he led the NDP through the election campaign with the same apparent vigour and enthusiasm he had displayed throughout his career.
In July he announced he would be taking a temporary leave from his duties to fight a second cancer, and said that Nycole Turmel would be interim leader. Layton succumbed to the disease only a month later.
Mulcair provided steady leadership, proving an effective performer and questioner in the House of Commons as leader of the Official Opposition. This belief was bolstered by the unprecedented victory earlier in the year, of the provincial wing of the party in Alberta, a Conservative bastion, where the NDP had been elected to power. New Democrats are committed to a future where racism, discrimination, homophobia, and transphobia have no place, where we fight for reproductive justice and an end to gender-based violence, and where government treats people with the respect and dignity we all deserve.
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