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  Labour Party of Canada
The first Labour MP was Arthur Puttee who founded the Winnipeg Labour Party and was elected to the House of Commons from that city in 1900.
In 1924, the Canadian Labour Party was formed by a coalition of the Federated Labour Party, Workers Party of Canada (the legal face of the Communist Party of Canada, and local labour councils.
The Progressive Party of Canada was effectively a coalition of farmer and labour groups.
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 Labour-Progressive Party (Canada) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Labour-Progressive Party was a Communist party in Canada.
When the Communist Party of Canada was banned in 1941, it refounded itself as the Labour-Progressive Party.
The NFLY was renamed the Socialist Youth League of Canada in the 1950s but became defunct later in the decade due to internal party turmoil.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Labour_Progressive_Party   (413 words)

  
 Labour Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saint Kitts and Nevis – Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – Unity Labour Party
Senegal – defunct: Labour Party of Sine Saloum
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Labour_Party   (227 words)

  
 Labor Organizations Of Canada
The laws, the labour party urge, were made by capitalists for capitalists, and the workers were often defrauded of their wages, especially in the building trade, for want of a lien law.
Canada could never have made the increase in population, attained the progress, and have occupied the position in the world she does today, if it could not have been shown that the standard of living among the people was higher than in the countries of the old world.
The labourers in the urban constituencies are numerous enough to accomplish their objects easily were they only as united on political action as they are on questions of wages and the hours of labour.
www.oldandsold.com /articles31n/canada-23.shtml   (2594 words)

  
 Elections BC - Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986 Part One Parties and Elections 1903-1986
In the 1920s operated as the Workers' Party of Canada, in the early 1930s as the United Front, and, after it was banned in 1940, as the Labour Progressive Party until 1957.
"Labour Party" and "Labour candidate" (or "Independent Labour Party" and "Independent Labour candidate") were used both by the press and by labour organizations to designate groups and individuals campaigning on a labour platform or in the interests of labour.
As with the designation of Labour, this term was used by the press and candidates to describe a general ideological orientation as well as specific platforms and parties.
www.elections.bc.ca /elections/electoral_history/part1-4.html   (1508 words)

  
 Socialism Today - ‘New Politics’ in Canada
LAST NOVEMBER leaders of Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) received a shock when 37% of delegates at the party’s national convention voted in favour of the New Politics Initiative (NPI), a current of NDP lefts and social activists outside the party who are proposing to replace the NDP with a new left-wing formation.
The NDP (Canada’s Labour Party) has reached social democracy’s nadir since it was formed in 1961 and since its predecessor, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) was founded in Regina in 1933.
We agree that a new party of the left is needed and that the NDP is not capable of filling that role.
www.socialismtoday.org /65/Canada.html   (1155 words)

  
 Communist Party of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Communist Party of Canada was founded in 1921 at a secret meeting held in a barn in Guelph, Ont, by 3 representatives from the Communist International and 21 Canadians.
The Party program was based on the teachings of Vladimir Lenin as adopted at the first meeting of the Communist International held in Moscow in 1919.
In Canada these events were reflected in the split of the Party into two parts in the early 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet bloc - those who supported and those who repudiated Stalinism.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001810   (1048 words)

  
 WHITHER
Before labour had such a party the traditional method used by the TLC, and the American Federation of Labor, was to use votes to 'reward their friends and punish their enemies'.
Labour and the CCF's greatest victories were not won in the House of Commons by CCF MP's.
The party as a whole is terrified of the growth in coalitions and the extra parliamentary opposition that seems intent on embracing the party once it does gain power.
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/5202/CLCNDP2a1.htm   (3603 words)

  
 Great Depression in Canada - Psychology Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Canada is sometimes considered to be the country hardest hit by the Great Depression.
Canada was hurt so badly because of its reliance on wheat and other commodities and because of the importance of trade to the Canadian economy.
By 1933, 30% of the labour force was out of work, and one fifth of the population became dependent on government assistance.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/The_Great_Depression_in_Canada   (1376 words)

  
 Liberal Party - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Liberal Party
British political party, the successor to the Whig Party, with an ideology of liberalism.
The party's left, composed mainly of working-class Radicals and led by Charles Bradlaugh (a lawyer's clerk) and Joseph Chamberlain (a wealthy manufacturer), repudiated laissez faire and inclined towards republicanism, but in 1886 the Liberals were split over the policy of home rule for Ireland, and many became Liberal Unionists or joined the Conservatives.
After the 1987 general election, Steel suggested a merger of the Liberal Party and the SDP, and the SLD was formed on 3 March 1988, with Paddy Ashdown elected leader in July of that year.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Liberal+Party   (879 words)

  
 Canada Election 2004 Voter Guide: Political Parties - Communist Party of Canada
The party platform says that the "...aim of the Communist Party of Canada is to establish a socialist and, ultimately, a communist society in Canada."
The struggle to advance the interests of the working class and people of Canada, and to defend its sovereignty, is inseparable from working class internationalism – the solidarity of the working class of all countries in cooperation against imperialist rule and for a world at peace.
The CPC prevailed in an appeal from the Ontario Court of Appeal's decision, to the Supreme Court of Canada in December of 2002.
www.mondopolitico.com /elections/canada2004/parties/communist.htm   (1493 words)

  
 Conservative Party of Canada
The Conservative Party of Canada believes that the appropriate role of the federal government is to foster an environment whereby the private sector, as the primary source of economic activity, will be encouraged to invest for the creation of jobs, wealth and prosperity.
The Conservative Party of Canada believes giving aboriginal government the power to raise their own revenues will reduce the cycle of dependency; and that the performance and accountability of aboriginal self-government is enhanced when those who receive services contribute to the cost of those services.
The Conservative Party of Canada recognizes the enrichment of our society that results from immigration and that Canada is a society built by successive waves of immigration from all sectors of the globe.
www.blogscanada.ca /cpcpolicy   (3322 words)

  
 Progressive Conservative Party of Canada --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The party was formed in 2003 by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party.
The idea for a merger of Canada's main conservative parties arose in the 1990s when national support for the Progressive Conservatives dwindled and the Reform Party (later the Canadian Alliance) was unable to expand its...
The Liberal Party has been the governing party at the federal level for most of the period since the late 1890s, bringing together pragmatic social policy reformers and advocates of free enterprise, the balance between them shifting as...
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9061502   (874 words)

  
 Straight Goods - Canada's leading independent online newsmagazine
A party that embraces and nurtures the democratic right of Canadians to choose to provide themselves, through their governments, with tax-paid services such as healthcare, housing and, perhaps someday, a negative income tax or some other mechanism for ensuring that as we move forward, no one will be left behind.
Instead he stuck with the party because he is a social democrat and I have never doubted his willingness to build a party on the left.
Party Renewal: That the NDP must renew itself if it is to become a viable national party capable of winning government is, once again, virtually a tautology.
www.straightgoods.ca /Thread.cfm?ThreadId=65   (15974 words)

  
 XPDNC - Political Party Links
Cosmopolitan Party of Canada - Parti Cosmopolite du Canada
The party "of the ballot box and of the streets" ("un parti des urnes et de la rue").
The Party that brought India to the 21st Century.
www.xpdnc.com /links/polparty.html   (634 words)

  
 July 2002: Canadian Labour Congress Shifts Left   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It asserts that "a political party on the left must reflect a linkage between its values and policies and those of the labour movement"-a sore point for many workers who've seen the NDP adapt to the neoliberal agenda and mimic the pro-capitalist politics of Tony Blair's British Labour Party.
Barb Byers, president of the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour, and Marie Clarke Walker of CUPE, were both elected executive vice presidents of the CLC with 2086 and 2306 votes respectively, defeating Francois Laporte, a Quebec Teamster backed by the "pinks," who received only 996 votes.
It's now up to labour's ranks to hold the new leaders to their promises, and to mobilize the movement to defeat the bosses and their governments at all levels.
www.socialistaction.org /news/200207/left.html   (865 words)

  
 LABOUR PARTY - Online Information article about LABOUR PARTY
interest of labour," and the committee (the Labour Representation Committee) was elected for the purpose.
In 1908 the attempts to unite the parliamentary representatives of the Independent Labour party with the Trades Union members were successful.
District, an unorganized territory under the jurisdiction of the government of the Dominion of Canada.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /KRO_LAP/LABOUR_PARTY.html   (2488 words)

  
 Humanist Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
And because of this basic stance, the Humanist Party is the only party that has the coherent vision to provide health, education, employment, housing and a rich cultural and natural environment for all.
To put the issue of Human Rights squarely on the agenda during the 1999 Provincial election, the Humanist Party of Ontario presented its "ORANGE BOOK: For An Ontario Of Human Rights" as a vision for the future, a challenge to the traditional parties, and as a model to be followed.
Finally, unlike all the other parties, humanists believe in a democracy that lasts for four years, not one which occurs once every four years.
www.web.net /~humanist/hparty.htm   (392 words)

  
 Socialist Party of Canada - Wallace's Corner
They pointed out that supposedly revolutionary vanguards imposing a party dictatorship in a country where the working class was but a small segment of the general populace was a recipe for disaster.
Capitalism is responsible for the deaths in Kosovo, the massacres in Rwanda, the Persian Gulf War and the bankrupt western government sanctions upon Iraq that still ends in the deaths of thousands of civilian men, women and children..
Capitalism was responsible for the Irish famine of the 1840s, the enslavement and working to death of the new industrial proletariat of Europe, as it is for the enslavement of child labour in developing countries today.
www.worldsocialism.org /canada/wc00011a.htm   (1190 words)

  
 Libertarian Party of Canada - Statement of Objectives
Preamble We, the members of the Libertarian Party of Canada, call for a marked reduction in the size and powers of the Government of Canada.
Taxation Because we believe that every individual is entitled to keep the product of his or her labour, we oppose, as a violation of individual rights, all government activity which consists of the forcible collection of money or goods from citizens.
Canada Pension Plan We call for the repeal of the fraudulent, virtually bankrupt, and increasingly inadequate and oppressive Canada Pension Plan.
www.libertarian.ca /english/ensoo.htm   (3913 words)

  
 AIM25: Institute of Commonwealth Studies: Canada: Repatriation of the Canadian Constitution
After Confederation Canada gradually assumed more autonomy over its own affairs until its independent status (and that of the other self-governing dominions) was recognized in the Balfour Report of 1926.
Consequently, when Canada officially ceased to be a British colony with passage of the Statute of Westminster in 1931, authority to amend the Constitution remained with the British Parliament.
The Constitution was patriated on April 17, 1982, without the consent of the Quebec legislature, but the Supreme Court of Canada subsequently ruled that the patriation process had respected Canada's laws and conventions, and that the Constitution, including the Constitution Act, 1982, was in force throughout Canada.
www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/16/4647.htm   (554 words)

  
 Trafford Publishing: Canadian Bolsheviks: The Early Years of the Communist Party of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Inspired by the Russian Revolution and by their own experiences as leaders of the post-war labour revolt in Canada, they set about to create a new kind of party, one that could lead the fight for workers' power.
The new Communist Party, formed between 1919 and 1921, quickly became the largest party on the left, with strong roots and influence in the unions and basic industry.
The organization still called itself Communist, but it was now "Tim Buck's Party." It had been transformed from a revolutionary party into an agent of the new ruling caste in Moscow.
www.trafford.com /robots/04-1623.html   (637 words)

  
 Taylor-Report.com
Canada has, it is said, two social democratic parties: the Bloc Quebecois and the New Democratic Party.
In Upper Canada the rebellion was led by Papineau's ally William Lyon Mackenzie, whose patriotism is not marked as it might detract from the glory of the old Monarch.
One the boogey-man, the Conservative Party, would gain an advantage and, two, there would be an alliance of Conservatives and the Bloc and our non-existent condition of "national unity" would be threatened.
www.taylor-report.com /articles/index.php?id=15   (621 words)

  
 CANADA: Quebec's new united left party
The Parti Quebecois (PQ), the pro-sovereignty bourgeois party that has governed Quebec with support from a wide range of trade union and nationalist activists for 18 of the past 28 years, is now in crisis following its defeat in the election.
The PDS — a radical remnant of the Quebec wing of the New Democratic Party, Canada's labour party, and which included Gauche Socialiste, the Fourth International section in Quebec — is now the “Quebec Socialiste” entity.
The party is also circulating a petition calling for public consultations on the issue, proposing male-female parity in representation, regional weighting and speedy implementation of electoral reform.
www.greenleft.org.au /back/2003/565/565p25.htm   (1733 words)

  
 Liberal Party of Canada
During the last session of Parliament, he was appointed to Cabinet as Minister of Labour and Housing.
As Minister, he launched a national review of Part III of the Canada Labour Code (Labour Standards), drafted legislation to create an innovative Wage Earners Protection Program and worked toward developing the first ever national housing policy for the federal government, the Canadian Housing Framework.
This website is the property of the Liberal Party of Canada and may not be reproduced in whole or in part without express written permission.
www.liberal.ca /bio_e.aspx?&id=35043   (311 words)

  
 Labour-Progressive Flyers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Labour Party based its ideas on the Trade and Labour Congress which was formed in 1900.
Sub-groups such as the National Federation of Labour Youth were organized to help different age groups of the working class.
When she returned to Canada she issued a booklet detailing her trip and what she saw.
www.trentu.ca /library/archives/93-1011.htm   (198 words)

  
 Political Parties & Party Platforms - Election 2004 - CANADA
Cosmopolitan Party of Canada / Parti Cosmopolite du Canada
The study, released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, also found that men received the lion's share--73%--of the value of the tax reductions under the Conservative's proposal.
The Green Party supports the right of gay couples to choose a lifelong partnership and to achieve the full and equivalent legal status of any married couple.
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 labour party - OneLook Dictionary Search
Labour party : Columbia Encyclopedia, Six Edition [home, info]
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