General Education

Winter 2017 General Education Colloquium

Social Democracy and the Left in Canada: Past, Present, and Future – March 21, 12:30-1:30 EA2007

In 1932, at the Legion in downtown Calgary, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation was formed.  Today, Alberta is the only province governed by the New Democratic Party. In the 85 years in between, the CCF/NDP has had its share of successes and disappointments in Canadian federal and provincial politics.  However, there has been relatively little academic work done on Canada’s party of the Left and its history. This is particularly noteworthy in comparison to the extensive body of work that exists about Canada’s other two national parties.

This colloquium will discuss a conference to be held at Mount Royal University May 12-14 that seeks to remedy this imbalance. We will examine the state of the NDP and the extra-parliamentary Left from the vantage point of the past and provide a critical historical and current-day basis from which the cause of social democracy in Canada can continue to advance.

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