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| Move over NDP; There is a new Socially Democratic Party in Town |
| 10.16.07 (4:07 pm) [edit] |
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With the release of their party platform, the Green Party has moved around the NDP’s left flank in two key areas and has matched the NDP in three other areas. In so doing the Green Party has challenged the NDP's claim to be Canada's most socially democratic party. Whereas the NDP is still committed merely decriminalizing Marijuana, the Green party will legalize it. Whereas the NDP remains silent on the "vacation gap” between Canada and Europe, the Green party will address the "vacation deficit" by giving Canadians an extra week of vacation a year. The Green Party will match the NDP on several other issues. Both the NDP and Green party support ban on all hand guns, semi automatic and fully automatic guns. Both the NDP and Green party support a National pharmacare plan. Both the NDP and Green party support a national $10 an hour minimum wage indexed to inflation. |
posted by: rww (reply)
post date: 10.16.07 (6:38 pm)
Does the Green Party know your accusing them of being a social democratic party.
posted by: leftdog (reply)
post date: 10.16.07 (7:44 pm)
Do all of the disaffected Ontario Conservatives who voted Green last week know your accusing them of being a social democratic party?
posted by: koby (reply)
post date: 10.16.07 (9:56 pm)
In 1988 the NDP took 19 of 32 BC seats and won the popular vote in that province with 37% of the vote. In 1993, the NDP but two seats in BC and captured a mere 15% of the vote. Similar losses where seen in Sask. Did you know that NDP was the traditonal home of disaffected voters before the arrival of the Reform policy. What makes a paty a socially democratic party is not who votes for them or why, but rather what policies they support.
posted by: PatZ (reply)
post date: 10.26.07 (6:18 pm)
You do know that the Federal Green Party is fiscally conservative, right? And that they're solution to PR is having their deputy leader shove a dead chicken in the face of the Public Safety minister?
And I fail to see how the Party has moved further left than the NDP. Having spoken with Adrienne Carr two weeks ago, her admission was that the party platform nowhere near as socially democratic as the NDP because of the promotion of free market values the party espouses.