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Modernizing the Party: 2000–2008

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Chapter 1 examines the state of the New Democratic Party (NDP) as it entered into the twenty-first century. The chapter covers topics including a brief history of the NDP, the NDP’s success under the leadership of Ed Broadbent in the 1988 Federal Election, “NDProgress,” the New Politics Initiative (NPI), the early life and career of Jack Layton and his campaign for leadership of the NDP, Laytons methods of modernizing the party, the NDP’s campaigning in Quebec, and the Federal Elections of 2004, 2006, and 2008.

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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.