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The New Democratic Party's leadership race is over. The membership have spoken and elected Thomas Mulcair as the next leader. Mulcair's main challenge is to defeat Stephen Harper in the next election and position the NDP to form a new government. He must build on the NDP's 2011 electoral success by holding on to Quebec and expanding support in the rest of Canada. 

Mulcair brings a number of strengths to Stornaway and Parliament Hill:

• previous Cabinet…

By Gary Shaul

I've been working on some research into the voter suppression phone call scandal in which voters were misdirected to non-existent polling stations. I hope to have some of the detailed results published on the weekend. I've looked at the Elections Canada financial records of 96 Conservative candidates (including most of those listed by the…

An Open Letter from New Democrats Who Have Won Through Cooperation

            Today, we are formally endorsing Nathan Cullen for leader of the NDP. His positions on the environment, employment and social justice make him the candidate who best reflects our values; and his wit and humour as a campaigner make him the person best able to fill Jack Layton’s shoes in bringing a positive, upbeat, yet hard-hitting message to Canadians.

Some…

A group of us, mostly on Salt Spring Island, B.C., came together to form Citizens for Cross-Party Cooperation with the specific purpose of writing all NDP, Liberal, and Green MPs (copied to Bloc MPs) and their party executives, pushing them to consider alternative strategies for the next election.  Our letter, sent on February 15, 2012, proposes that these parties accept - prior to the next election - the possibility of forming a coalition government should their seat numbers warrant  it. …

Yesterday, John Deverell, part of the Catch 22 campaign editorial team last year, published his opinion piece on our website yesterday - Why the opposition parties should co-operate in 2015. It is written with the backdrop of the NDP leadership campaign but puts special emphasis on the need for the Liberal Party to wake up and smell the coffee for the sake of its…

This is a high level summary of campaign results in ridings identified by the Catch 22 campaign. Over the coming weekend, we'll publish an editorial. Then in a few weeks we'll put out a more detailed look at our campaign - strengths and weaknesses, what worked and what didn't etc. Once that is done, the campaign will be wrapped up.

Obviously, we did not get the overall results we were looking for. With less than a 2% increase in the popular vote, Harper was successful at boosting his…

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While I've never run for public office, I have run for several union positions over the past 25 years. Having both won and lost elections by just a single vote, I can tell you how important every last vote can be. In the case where I lost, it was because of a mistake made by my scrutineer (yes, we're still friends).

I have voted Green in the SGI, I am an NDP member so someone could vote stratecially in another riding where NDP needs to win.

With pairvote they say you must NOT have voted in the advance poll

Here, I think we can just agree on our own terms and confirm the trade.

If a Lib could win, then ok too but prefer NDP

i live in Parkdale-High Park in Toronto, where liberals and NDP are in a tight race. both are good candidates. i will vote for your candidate if you vote for Elizabeth May.

Liz

Could you tell me what the optimum results could be obtained.  I would like to know what would be the Parties balance if the vote you recommand + those that already have good chances to be elected are all elected. I understand that your answer would not be a commitment but only an hypothesis.  Thank you for working on this important issue of defeating conservative party. 

Merci beaucoup de votre super travail!

Sylvie - Ottawa

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