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This feels like it's happened before … it's Groundhog Day and the Liberals have just broken a promise!

| February 2, 2017

So long, electoral reform! Welcome back, first-past-the-post!

Elizabeth May, the leader of the Green Party, said yesterday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's announcement that his clear promise of electoral reform back in the 2015 federal election campaign was going over the side left her feeling "more deeply shocked and betrayed by my government today than on any day of my adult life."

Those of us who are old New Democrats, or old Tories for that matter, may not feel quite so much shock.

It is Groundhog Day, after all, and we've seen this movie before -- over and over and over. Every time we're persuaded to vote Liberal for one reason or another, as a matter of fact.

Nathan Cullen speaks to students at McGill University. Flickr/davehuehn

Trump helps make the argument for electoral reform in Canada

Karl Nerenberg

| November 18, 2016

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There is a connection between the election in the U.S. of an arguably extremist candidate and the Canadian push for electoral reform.

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The electoral reform committee wants to hear from you! Kind of...

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The House of Commons Special Committee on Electoral Reform (ERRE) wants to hear from you! Well, sort of.

The all-party committee has decided against allotting time to address questions from Twitter users -- a motion introduced by both committee members NDP MP Nathan Cullen and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May.

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Democratic reform Justin? Democracy, anyone?

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By confessing his government was starting to look like its predecessor, Justin Trudeau did a clever step down from his party position on democratic reform.

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Thomas Mulcair will be stepping down as leader. What next?

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From all accounts, it was an interesting Federal NDP convention. There will be conversations about the LEAP Manifesto in ridings across the country -- so stay tuned to the LEAP Manifesto webpage for more details about local discussions and events.

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Alberta shows why there will be no NDP-Liberal entente, despite Nathan Cullen's mistimed musing

David J. Climenhaga

| July 27, 2015

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Whatever Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen was thinking when he flapped his lips to the delight of the conservative mainstream media about how the NDP would consider a coalition with the Liberals to get rid of Stephen Harper, the chances of it happening are very close to zero.

As suggested in this space before, if the Liberals were going to form a coalition with anyone, it would be an axis of neoliberalism with Prime Minister Harper's Conservatives.

The NDP muses about a coalition -- this should be no surprise to anyone

Michael Laxer

| July 25, 2015

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On Wednesday, NDP MP and former leadership hopeful Nathan Cullen talked forcefully about what Tom Mulcair has also previously mused about on occasion -- forming a coalition government with the Liberals in the event of a minority parliament after the election in order to oust the Harper government.

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From Christmas in July to turfing the Senate: A week in politics is a long time

J. Baglow

| July 24, 2015

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A week in politics rising quickly to its climax: a report that Stephen Harper wants to abolish the Senate. His creatures there have been giving him a black eye, and only now has he looked in the mirror. Wow, what a shiner!

NDP leadership debate was amicable, but it ignored the elephant in the progressive political room

David J. Climenhaga

| October 5, 2014

Listening to the Alberta NDP's final leadership debate Thursday night in Edmonton, one could almost imagine there was total unanimity about everything among the province's New Democrats.

Indeed, there was complete unanimity among the three candidates -- in alphabetical order, Edmonton-Calder MLA David Eggen, University of Alberta staff union leader Rod Loyola and Edmonton-Strathcona MLA Rachel Notley -- on the stage at the Campus St. Jean theatre.

They got it right more often than they got it wrong, I'm pleased to report, but even when they were wrong, they were all wrong together. They cheerfully all pledged to work hard for whoever wins the vote to replace retiring party Leader Brian Mason on Oct. 18 and 19.

Wednesday in the House, Defence Minister MacKay got called out by the NDP's Nathan Cullen.

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