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 Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The party first ran candidates for the Canadian House of Commons during the 1974 federal election but has had to run them as candidates of the "Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada" after Elections Canada ruled that the party's preferred name was too close to that of the Communist Party of Canada.
The Internationalists were initially a Maoist student group but, as a result of their growth, they declared themselves a formal political party on March 31, 1970 and changed their name to the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist).
The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) (CPC-ML) is a Canadian federal political party whose platform is the promotion of communism.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marxist-Leninist_Party_of_Canada

  
 Communist Party of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Communist Party of Canada is a communist political party in Canada.
With lawyer Peter Rosenthal representing the CPC, The Supreme Court of Canada ruled the law (originally put in place by the Mulroney government) as unconstitutional.
The party was banned in 1941, and thereafter ran candidates as the Labour-Progressive Party until 1959.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Communist_Party_of_Canada   (2635 words)

  
 Mapleleafweb.com: Voter Alamanc - Federal Political Parties in Canada
A political party is a eligible party if it has applied for registration under the Canada Elections Act, but has yet to fulfill some of the conditions to become a registered party.
A political party is deregistered if it fails to endorse a candidate in at least 50 electoral districts or to file documents specified by the Canada Elections Act.
A political party is registered if it succeeds in endorsing 50 or more confirmed candidates in a general election and meets certain other conditions under the Canada Elections Act.
www.mapleleafweb.com /election/federal/parties   (2635 words)

  
 Federal Political Parties in Canada
*Merged with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to form the Conservative Party of Canada: December 8, 2003.
*Merged with Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance to form the Conservative Party of Canada: December 8, 2003.
www.mondopolitico.com /parties/canada/federal/can.fed.pp.htm   (2635 words)

  
 Open Directory - Regional: North America: Canada: Society and Culture: Politics: Parties
Communist Party of Canada - Canada's "party of socialism" dedicated to the creation of a new economic arrangement in Canada where the economy works for the needs of the people rather than the other way around.
The Undecided Party of Canada - Outlines the policies of the Undecided Party of Canada.
Republican Party of Canada - A right-wing grassroots party advocating responsible freedom.
dmoz.org /Regional/North_America/Canada/Society_and_Culture/Politics/Parties   (2635 words)

  
 Life on the Fringe: a look at some of the underdogs of Canadian politics - Brock Press - Features
This is the Marijuana Party of Canada (MP), and their sole reason for existence is to achieve the legalization of marijuana.
"We are the only party which recognizes the first statement to the preamble of our nation's constitution, which states that Canada was founded on principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law."
The MLP is unquestionably the most radical and revolutionary of the smaller parties running in the current election; the party is not simply trying to influence political debate, it is advocating a complete restructuring of Canadian society.
www.brockpress.com /news/2004/06/22/Features/Life-On.The.Fringe.A.Look.At.Some.Of.The.Underdogs.Of.Canadian.Politics-689155.shtml?page=1   (2635 words)

  
 Fringe parties fighting the odds - Capital News Online
The Communist Party, Canada’s third oldest (behind the Progressive Conservatives and the Liberals), agrees that election 2000 will be an uphill battle for smaller organizations that already lack such key resources as money and media expertise.
The keynote address was given by Terry Parker, winner of a landmark decision by the Ontario Court of Appeal in July that struck down Canada’s 77-year-old law prohibiting marijuana possession.
The party — which argues that political and social problems can be solved by heightening personal consciousness — wants to register candidates in all 301 ridings by the Nov. 6 deadline.
www.carleton.ca /jmc/cnews/03112000/feature.htm   (2635 words)

  
 party status
If a party has status with Canada's Chief Electoral Officer it means the party name will appear on the ballot during an election.
If a party has status in the Parliament or in a provincial legislature it means its won a certain number of seats in the election.
The notion of official party status in the House of Commons began in the late 1960s.
www.sulysse.com /party_status.html   (2635 words)

  
 HAFFEV06-e
The political discontent and disaffection in Canada has never been higher, and the fact that the current party governing Canada was elected by a mere 38% of the voters is proof of this.
The party that wins one year is then allowed to write all of the rules to suit itself for the next election and to create a set of rules under which it wants to play and that gives it an advantage over the other parties.
Canada and the United States are now the only industrial democracies that have not yet begun to take steps toward incorporating some form of proportionality into their electoral systems.
www.parl.gc.ca /InfocomDoc/36/2/HAFF/Meetings/Evidence/haffev06-e.htm   (2635 words)

  
 Socialist Party of Canada - Wallace's Corner
If the history of the left-wing in Canada is ever written, perhaps the most amusing, yet appalling would be the role of the Leninist left.
In other words, for the first time in the history of Ontario and Canada, a majority in the Parliament could demand that legislation should be formulated by those who are knowledgeable about the needs of the people in every field and submitted for the approval of the entire society.
While I can agree that an elected independent party candidate might "objectively" occupy a seat in the legislature, I cannot believe that the working class be any further ahead along the road to "change".
www.worldsocialism.org /canada/wc99165b.htm   (2635 words)

  
 Socialism: Theory and Practice - Leninism
While traditional Marxists felt that the state would gradually disappear as a result of the proletariat becoming the only class, eliminating all inequalities, Lenin argued that these people would need to be continually led by a vanguard party comprised of trained revolutionaries.
Lenin, as leader of the Communist Party, advocated the ‘liquidation’ of the bourgeois class, as well as those people that stood in the way of the fulfillment of his Marxist dreams.
This party, he said, would need to continue to exist throughout the socialist period of the revolution, and perhaps for a long time to come, in order to protect the newly formed ‘socialist state’ from its internal and external enemies.
www.the-wood.org /socialism/leninism.htm   (2635 words)

  
 e.Peak (14/11/2000) news: And the other candidates are...
For election purposes, the Communist Party of Canada is registered under the name Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada (MLPC).
The Green party's extensive platform includes the wish to support Canadian arts and culture, implement a 32-hour work week, promote community economic development, create a 'guaranteed income supplement,' reduce military expenditures, extend universal health care benefits, promote organic agriculture, electoral reform, and the implementation of an ecological bill of rights.
The Christian Heritage Party believes the Bible is the "inspired, inerrant written Word of God and the final authority above all man's laws and government," and that "the purpose of civil government is to ensure freedom and justice for a nation's citizens by upholding law and order in accordance with Biblical principles."
www.peak.sfu.ca /the-peak/2000-3/issue11/ne-otherparty.html   (2635 words)

  
 canadian_federal_election__2000.html
The New Democratic Party campaigned intensely on the issue of medicare, but failed to make much headway with voters.
On November 28, 2000, Canada held a federal election.
The election was regarded as a great success by Jean Chrétien and the Liberals, but as a failure for every other party.
www.online-encyclopedia.info /encyclopedia/c/ca/canadian_federal_election__2000.html   (2635 words)

  
 Registered Parties & Candidates for 2004 Canadian Elections
You can look up the spending limits for each registered political party is allowed to spend in each of the 308 ridings; not that this is in addition to the amount that the individual candidates can spend.
Elections Canada has approved 1685 candidates for the 2004 elections, which is a drop from the 1808 candidates in the 2000 elections.
Any donations they receive are tax deductible, their parties' names appear on the ballot along with their candidates', and they qualify for government payments equal to 60% of their election expenses.
www.sfu.ca /~aheard/elections/parties.html   (2635 words)

  
 Marijuana Party of Canada – Parti Marijuana du Canada 2% challenge court application and affidavits
However, had the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada received an allowance of $21,119 in 2004, it would have been able to conduct campaigns in the 2004 election reaching a larger number of voters and it can be argued that it would have received a larger number of votes and consequently a larger allowance for 2005.
In the federal election of 2004, the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada ran 76 candidates and received 8,696 votes or 0.6 percent of the national vote.
The Communist Party of Canada challenged the constitutionality of this “50 candidate threshold.” The case was finally heard by the Supreme Court of Canada in June 2003, at which time the “50 candidate rule” was declared to be unconstitutional.
www.marijuanaparty.com /article.php3?id_article=266   (2635 words)

  
 CBC - Canada Votes 2004 - Parties and Leaders - Other Leaders
She is a past president of the party, which was founded by former Trudeau cabinet minister Paul Hellyer in 1997, and ran for the party in Vancouver Kingsway in the 2000 general election, along with 69 other candidates across Canada.
He went to court after the Communist Party of Canada was deregistered for not running enough candidates in the 1993 federal election (it ran in only eight ridings).
The party's colourful leader began campaigning to legalize the possession and use of pot about 15 years ago, when he was arrested for possession and spent 24 hours in jail.
www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/leadersparties/leaders/bio_otherleaders.html   (2635 words)

  
 CanadaInfo: Government: Federal
The Governor General is appointed by The Sovereign on the advice of the Prime Minister; Canada's Head of Government is the Prime Minister who is the leader of the party with the most seats in the House of Commons.
Canada's Head of State is the head of the Commonwealth who is represented in Canada by the Governor General.
The Leader of the Official Opposition is the leader of the party with the second most number of seats in the House of Commons.
www.craigmarlatt.com /canada/government/federal.html   (2635 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 CPC prevailed in an appeal from the Ontario Court of Appeal's decision, to the Supreme Court of Canada in December of 2002.
To communists, for a person to hire employees, do no work himself except hiring the workers and selling their product, and then keep some of the proceeds from the sale (i.e., a "profit"), is wrong.
www.mondopolitico.com /elections/canada2004/parties/communist.htm   (1493 words)

  
 Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The party first ran candidates for the Canadian House of Commons during the 1974 federal election but has had to run them as candidates of the "Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada" after Elections Canada ruled that the party's preferred name was too close to that of the Communist Party of Canada.
The Internationalists were initially a Maoist student group but, as a result of their growth, they declared themselves a formal political party on March 31, 1970 and changed their name to the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist).
The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) (CPC-ML) is a Canadian federal political party whose platform is the promotion of communism.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Communist_Party_of_Canada_(Marxist-Leninist)   (1316 words)

  
 Communist Party of Canada
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.
During the 1930s, the communists in Canada and in the United States were successful in organizing a number of industries under the new Congress of Industrial Unions (CIO).
This act was declared ultra vires (outside provincial jurisdiction) by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1957.
thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001810   (1048 words)

  
 Canada Election 2004 Voter Guide: Political Parties - Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
This party ultimately became the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) of which Bains was the founding leader; it was also the origin of anti-revisionist parties in Britain and Ireland.
The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) is registered with Elections Canada by the name "Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada" only so as to avoid confusion with the other Communist Party of Canada.
Canada Election 2004 Voter Guide: Political Parties - Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
www.mondopolitico.com /elections/canada2004/parties/marxist.htm   (355 words)

  
 Political Parties & Party Platforms - Election 2004 - CANADA
Cosmopolitan Party of Canada / Parti Cosmopolite du Canada
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.
Political Parties and Party Platforms - Election 2004 - CANADA
dawn.thot.net /election2004/pp.htm   (355 words)

  
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president of NORML supported LETS by joining the Abolitionist Party of Canada.
My goal is to get the consensus of Canada's political parties to have the Government of Canada submit an amendment to the "Millennium Summit" Declaration that would include "Millennium Forum" Declaration C6 for a UNILETS interest-free alternative time-based currency.
In the 1997 Ottawa West-Nepean general election, a petition for a National LETS was signed by five out of the eight party candidates.
www.cyberclass.net /jctfedelect2000.htm   (355 words)

  
 Comments
The Conservative Party of Canada (AKA the Tories),
New Democratic Party of Canada (AKA the New Democrats),
Living in British Columbia, Canada, I am exposed to a healthy (or is that unhealthy?) dose of politics, as is the rest of the country I'm quite sure.
counterfactual.blogdrive.com /comments?id=1   (355 words)

  
 Political Parties Digital Copyright Canada
The Official list of Registered Political Parties is maintained by Elections Canada.
What I am looking for is a link for each party that will reference the candidate and other information.
These links contain the electoral district number in them, and the message is automatically generated in a script.
www.digital-copyright.ca /taxonomy/view/or/331   (355 words)

  
 Daimnation!: The communist electoral breakthrough
Remember that brief lead for the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada in one riding on election night, which Lloyd Robertson wrote off as a "computer glitch"?
In fact, the MLPC and the Communist Party of Canada got 13,633 votes between them.
But there is at least one neighbourhood in Toronto where actual commies make up a majority, or at least a plurality, of the voters.
www.damianpenny.com /archived/002876.html   (355 words)

  
 debate.html
The PDP---along with the Canadian Action Party, Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada, and the Progressive Canadian Party---were set to debate amongst themselves after the first slate of candidates had debated, and half of them, left the building.
The bottomline is, we, the progressive parties, were marginalized once again and those of you who weren't able to be there should know this.
Had we had seats in the first debate, at least Annexians would have been able to hear what their options were and the smaller party candidates would have been given a fair opportunity to debate the "main" party candidates.
individual.utoronto.ca /markdaku/debate.html   (355 words)

  
 Movement for Canadian Literacy - Election 2004 - Literacy Action Kit
As soon as information is available, Elections Canada will list the names of candidates, their political affiliation, and contact information on the Elections Canada website.
There are nine political parties officially registered with Elections Canada:
You can also identify local candidates and obtain contact information for the candidates you choose to contact through each of the political parties' websites.
www.literacy.ca /elect04/litacton/page05.htm   (355 words)

  
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www.ncf.carleton.ca /freenet/rootdir/menus/government/fedelect/nat/menu2   (355 words)

  
 Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada
This website is operated by the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada - Updated August 16, 2005
Electoral name of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
In the debate in Parliament about whether or not an election should be called because of the aura of corruption and graft surrounding the ruling Liberal Party, the role of the Gomery Inquiry was a key point.
www.mlpc.ca   (355 words)

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