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A Battle for the Federal NDP’s Soul

Q&A with Matt Fodor, author of "From Layton to Singh: The 20-year conflict behind the NDP's deal with the Trudeau Liberals."

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Jeremy Appel
Oct 28, 2022
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Late NDP leader Jack Layton and future NDP leader Jagmeet Singh. (Facebook/Jagmeet Singh)

The NDP has come a long way from the days of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation’s agrarian socialism, through the years of Tommy Douglas, David Lewis and Ed Broadbent and the party’s near-collapse in the 1990s. 

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