While the party joined in the Quebec City carnival, the NDP should remember that the ultimate audience for a political party is the Canadian mainstream. There is great dissatisfaction among left activists with the political process in general and the NDP in particular. Click here to view the opinions of others or to post your own. On-line survey 1. The NDP, with all its problems, doesn't need to clone itself.
Social democracy is dead in Canada.
Party politics is irrelevant to me. I feel my efforts are more rewarded as a political activist. My social and political activism reinforce one another. A major re-orientation of social democratic policy is needed to make it greener and more grassroots oriented. Community is a nostalgic notion today with the dominance of corporate culture and suburbia.