Canadian_Action_Party Canadian_Action_Party

Canadian Action Party - Definition and Overview
Canadian Action Party
Current Leader:Connie Fogal
Founded:1997
Headquarters:99 Atlantic Avenue
Suite 302
Toronto, Ontario
M6K 3J8
Colours:Blue Red
Political ideology:progressive

The Canadian Action Party is a progressive, Canadian federal political party founded in 1997. It opposes globalization and free trade, and promotes independence for Canada and economic nationalism. It also advocates monetary, economic nationalism, democratic and electoral reform.

The Canadian Action Party was founded by Paul Hellyer, a former Liberal minister of defence in the cabinet of Lester Pearson. Hellyer ran unsuccessfully for the leadership of the Liberal Party in 1968, and for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1976.

Hellyer resigned as CAP leader in 2003 after the New Democratic Party failed to agree to a merger proposal. In 2004, Connie Fogal was acclaimed party leader after David Orchard failed to respond to an invitation to take over the leadership.

A number of CAP members also belong to the Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform (COMER) and have been influential in developing CAP's monetary policy, particularly its position that the Bank of Canada, rather than chartered banks, should provide loans to the government. CAP argues also that the ability of chartered banks to create money should be transferred to the Bank of Canada in order to fund public spending.

Election results

Election # of candidates # of votes % of popular vote
1997 election 58 17,052 0.13%
2000 election 70 27,101 0.21%
2004 election 45 8,930 0.06%

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Federal Political Parties of Canada
Liberal
image:lpcsmall.jpg 		Conservative
image:cpcsmall.jpg 		B.Q.
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Action
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image:chpsmall.PNG 		Communist
image:cmpcsmall.PNG 		Green
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Libertarian
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image:mpsmall.PNG 		Marxist-Leninist
image:mlpcsmall2.PNG 		PC Party
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