At this party's 1971 leadership convention, a takeover bid by the radical Waffle faction led by Carol Gudmundson was defeated. In a recent election, a
At this party's 1971 leadership convention, a takeover bid by the radical Waffle faction led by Carol Gudmundson was defeated. In a recent election, a leader of this party was alleged to have once been found naked in a suspected Chinatown "bawdy house" during a 1996 raid. Its first national leader produced a speech about the capitalist economy entitled "The Cream Separator." Recently, this party won a large number of seats in a surge of popularity called the "Orange Crush." This party developed from J.S. Woodsworth's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation which followed the (*) pro-union aims in the Regina Manifesto. The last leader of this party was given a state funeral after his August 2011 death and was named Jack Layton. For 10 points, name this leftist Canadian party first led by "Father of Medicare" Tommy Douglas, which currently serves as the Official Opposition.
At this party's 1971 leadership convention, a takeover bid by the radical Waffle faction led by Carol Gudmundson was defeated.
New Democratic Party [or NDP or New Democrats; accept Nouveau Parti démocratique or NPD or Les Néo Démocrates; prompt on "Canadian Opposition," "Official Opposition," or "Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition," and equivalents such as "second largest party in the Canadian House of Commons" or the aforementioned given in French]