{"id":12268,"date":"2010-06-17T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T04:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=12268"},"modified":"2010-06-17T00:00:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T04:00:27","slug":"new-democratic-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/17\/new-democratic-party\/","title":{"rendered":"New Democratic Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/tommydouglas-cp-1779884.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12271\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/tommydouglas-cp-1779884.jpg\" alt=\"TOMMY DOUGLAS\" width=\"420\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/tommydouglas-cp-1779884.jpg 584w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/tommydouglas-cp-1779884-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tommy_Douglas\" target=\"_blank\">Tommy Douglas<\/a> (former CCF Premier of Saskatchewan and father of Medicare) becomes the NDP&#8217;s first leader, holding the post until 1971<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On this date in 1961 the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Democratic_Party\" target=\"_blank\">New Democratic Party<\/a> was formed with the merger of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cooperative_Commonwealth_Federation\" target=\"_blank\">Cooperative Commonwealth Federation<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canadian_Labour_Congress\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Labour Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Frye on Canadian Socialism in his &#8220;Speech at the New Canadian Embassy, Washington,&#8221; September 14, 1989:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;.Canada has had, for the last fifty years, a Socialist (or more accurately Social Democratic) party which is normally supported by twenty-five to thirty percent of the electorate, and has been widely respected through most of its history, for its devotion to principle.\u00a0 Nothing of proportional size or influence has emerged among socialists in the United States.\u00a0 When the CCF, the first form of this party, was founded in the 1930s, its most obvious feature went largely unnoticed.\u00a0 That feature was that it was following a British rather than an American tendency, trying to assimilate the Canadian political structure to the British Conservative-Labour pattern.\u00a0 The present New Democratic Party, however, never seems to get beyond a certain percentage of support, not enough to come to federal power.\u00a0 Principles make voters nervous, and yet any departure from them towards expediency makes them suspicious.\u00a0 (<em>CW<\/em> 12, 643-4)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>CBC Radio archives on Tommy Douglas and the NDP <a href=\"http:\/\/archives.cbc.ca\/politics\/parties_leaders\/topics\/851\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>CBC Television memorial for Tommy Douglas <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-8011314353978191737#\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Douglas (former CCF Premier of Saskatchewan and father of Medicare) becomes the NDP&#8217;s first leader, holding the post until 1971 On this date in 1961 the New Democratic Party was formed with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and the Canadian Labour Congress. 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