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NDP and argued
On the eve of the 2004 election, Harris argued that as the NDP won nine seats with 6. 9 % of the vote in 1993, if the Greens would elect MPs if they could match or surpass that threshold.
Mel Watkins and even Elie Martel have argued that the NDP lost a generation of volunteers and members due to the way the Waffle was handled.
Some have argued that the NDP passed these changes because they saw it as being in their best interests to help the PC party stay alive.
He also argued the NDP was too close to provincial labour unions.
George Hickes, a New Democratic Party ( NDP ) legislator of Inuit background, argued that the principle of an aboriginal party is inappropriate for Canada's constituency-based electoral system.
NDP leader Gary Doer argued that the provision regarding donations unfairly targeted his party, and suggested that corporate shareholders should be given the same right to shield their investments from party donations.
NDP Justice Critic Joe Comartin argued that this change addressed the legitimate concerns of Canadians, while removing what he described as " the radical, extreme over-reaction " of the Conservatives.
Sidney Green, who had left the NDP by this time and also opposed French-language re-entrenchment, nevertheless argued that Walding was wrong to give the Conservatives a means of disrupting the legislative process.
Kostyra has argued that the NDP must focus its attention on issues relating to the working-class to survive as a party.
Despite this set back the NDP was established officially in 1966 before the NF although critics, particularly from within the NF, argued that Brown only did so as he could not stand the prospect of serving under A. K. Chesterton.

NDP and current
The NDP sat as official opposition to the current Yukon Party government in the Yukon Legislative Assembly until May 2006.
The current leader of the Alberta NDP is Brian Mason, a former city councillor.
About 600 people attended his memorial, including federal NDP leaders Jack Layton and Ed Broadbent, former provincial premiers Roy Romanow, Lorne Calvert, Peter Lougheed, Ed Schreyer, Bill Davis, and Bob Rae, as well the current Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall.
* 1993 – 1998 Michael Prue – later Toronto city councillor and current NDP MPP
The current residents of Stornoway are Thomas Mulcair, the NDP leader as of March 24, 2012, and his wife Catherine Pinhas.
As of the May 2, 2011, Canadian general election, the current Member of Parliament ( MP ) is New Democratic Party ( NDP ) member Peggy Nash.
The current ministry has been in place since June 19, 2009, when the newly elected NDP government was sworn in.
Schellenberg was succeeded by current NDP MLA Erna Braun, who won the seat in 2007 provincial election with 60 % of the vote.
The current MLA is Jennifer Howard of the NDP.
The current MLA is Kerri Irvin-Ross of the NDP, who was re-elected in the 2007 provincial election with 53 % of the vote.
Thus, NDP estimates how much the country has to spend to maintain the current GDP.
Arnhim Ulric Eustace ( born 1945 ) is a Vincentian politician and economist, who was the third Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and is the current leader of the New Democratic Party ( NDP ).
The current Chairman of the NDP is still Lyudmyla Suprun.

NDP and form
On 26 March 2011, Bloc Québécois leader Duceppe stated that Conservative leader Stephen Harper had in 2004 tried to form a coalition government with the Bloc and NDP in response to Harper's allegations that the Liberals intended to form a coalition with the Bloc and the NDP.
Specifically, the NDP opposed the salary provisions and the form of binding arbitration outlined in the bill.
While remaining sharply critical of Glen Clark's NDP government, Parker spearheaded highly controversial negotiations to form municipal electoral alliances with NDP-affiliated parties in 1998 after vote-splitting all but wiped out leftist representation at the local level in Vancouver and Victoria in 1996.
In the 2011 election Layton led the NDP to the most successful result in the party's history, winning 103 seats — enough to form Canada's Official Opposition.
On March 26, 2011, in response to Harper's allegations that a coalition is not a legitimate or principled way to form government, Duceppe stated that Harper had once tried to form a coalition government with the Bloc and NDP.
Rae took part in negotiations for the Liberals to form a coalition with the NDP, with support from the Bloc Québécois.
The NDP signed a two-year accord with the Liberals, in which the Liberals would form government with the NDP's support in exchange for the implementation of a number of NDP policies.
The leader is head of the parliamentary party and leads the party caucus in the Ontario legislature and is the party's presumed candidate to lead an NDP government should the party be called upon to form a government.
The defeat occurred after an accord was reached between the David Peterson Liberals and Bob Rae's New Democratic Party to allow the Liberals to form a minority government for two years with NDP support despite the fact that the Liberals had slightly fewer seats than the Tories.
* May 2-Ontario election: Frank Miller's PCs win a minority, but David Peterson's Liberals will form a coalition with the NDP, forcing Miller to resign
Following the 2003 general election, the NDP, now led by Lorne Calvert, was able to form a government on its own with a majority in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan of two seats ( 30 – 28 ).
The 1999 election was considered too close to call until election day, but the NDP benefited from a decline in Liberal support and won 32 seats to form a majority government.
In the 2011 election the Yukon NDP under Elizabeth Hanson elected six MLAs to form the territory's Official Opposition.
To some it appeared that it was only a matter of time before the NDP would form the government.
Alberta Federation of Labour president Gil McGowan had, independently from the Environment Caucus, distributed a detailed discussion paper advocating that the NDP form a one or two election cooperation pact with the Alberta Liberal Party and Alberta Greens in which parties would not run against each other in certain ridings in hopes of defeating Progressive Conservative candidates.
In 1961, the CCF merged with the Canadian Labour Congress to form the New Democratic Party ( NDP ) at both federal and provincial levels.
Due to the almost even split between opposition parties and the fact that both the Liberals and the NDP hoped to win the next election, the two opposition parties were unable and unwilling to form a coalition to replace the Conservatives, and the Davis government was able to survive.
This scenario repeated itself following the results of the 2011 election that saw the Liberal Party lose Official Opposition status in the House to the New Democratic Party — since the NDP has no representation in the Senate ( and favours abolition of the chamber ) the Liberals will continue to form the Official Opposition in the Senate.
Beginning with the 2011 NDP convention issue, the publication took the form of a magazine.

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