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Breakthrough: the 2011 Federal Election

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Chapter 2 focuses on the period of momentum experienced by the Federal and Provincial NDP between the 2008 and 2011 Federal Elections. The chapter covers topics including the 2008 financial crash, the Liberal-NDP coalition, the victory of the NDP in Nova Scotia provincial election of 2009, the federal parties discussions of renaming the party to better reflect, the shift away from the NDP’s traditional social democratic platforms, the rise of the NDP in Quebec, and the outcome of the 2011 federal election.

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Matt Fodor

Matt Fodor is a writer, political strategist and PhD candidate in political science at York University. His research areas are Comparative politics and Canadian politics with a special interest in social democracy. Matt is a long-time observer of the NDP and has written extensively about the party at the federal and provincial level, including chapters in Party of Conscience (2013) and Tax is Not a Four-Letter Word (2018). He has contributed to NOW, Rabble and The Bullet. He lives in Toronto.