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The History of the NDP

I added 5 different sources that I thought were helpful for the NDP page. These sources do not talk about the Nova Scotia NDP, but they give information on the NDP party as a whole. They discuss how the NDP party struggled, what struggles the party still faces today, how the party has grown over the years, what the NDP runs for/believes in, and what the party has achieved in recent years ( from 2000 - now )

One of the NDP's major focuses as a political party is equality rights. The NDP have expressed that gender and race still play a big part in government roles, and one thing that the NDP is trying to change is the gender and race norms within political parties (Allsop, Richez, 2021).

when the NDP first formed as a political party it was brought in to replace the CLC. The NDP were supposed to have a great amount of support, but this was not the case. This was one of the first struggles the NDP had to face as a political party (Archer, 1990).

In the 1960s and 1970s some members of the NDP tried to convince the party leader at the time to switch to the left side of the political spectrum. This was a major event in the history of the NDP. After the 1980s the NDP struggled for years to gain any power or ground in Federal or Provincial elections. In fact, it wasn't until 2005 that the NDP began gaining power again (Lexier, 2017).

In 2000 the NDP suffered one of the worst Federal election defeats in Federal election history. In 2015 when Jack Layton became party leader, this is when the NDP really gained party power. In 2015, The NDP for the first time in a long time were a serious contender to win the Federal Election. The party today struggles to gain anymore power because some members within the party still disagree on how political marketing should be done (McGrane, 2019).

Another big part of the NDP is the Canadian Labour Movement, also known as the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC). Ever since the NDP formed as a political party union involvement has been a major topic for the NDP (Savage, 2009).