POL 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Tom Mulcair, Centre-Left Politics, Leadership Review

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2101
• Professor: Andre Lecours

Document Summary

Thursday we will look at the current electoral system and what changes we can see in the electoral system. 1. the ndp. the co-operative commonwealth federation (1932-1961). the broadbent years (1975-1989) the "dark years": 1989-2003 the jack layton years: 2003-2011 the 2011 elections: the breakthrough. In 1933 a new party created that would become ndp. From 1867-1932-33 we had a two party system. A party born in western provinces in farming communities. Left of centre party with focus on agriculture. Belief federal government needs to provide assistance to farming communities. Late 1980s when reform party develops, western people who typically voted ccf and ndp switched too reform. Ndp changed fundamentally in 1980s (will come back to that) Ccf becomes new democratic party in 1960"s. Liberal government is bad for ndp, they vie for same pool of voters. Ndp traditionally does better when conservatives are in power and there is some type of scandal with liberals.