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Orange Crash: the 2015 Federal Election

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Chapter 4 examines the NDP’s failure to maintain the surge in popularity experienced under Layton’s leadership in the 2015 Federal Election. The chapter covers topics including victory of the Alberta NDP with the election of Rachel Notley in 2015, the Anti-Terrorism Act (Bill C-51) and the overpowering of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), the Leap Manifesto, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and the failures of the party in the 2015 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.