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Layton mum on NDP name change
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Aug 14, 2009 04:59pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | CBC News |
| Media | Website - CBC |
| News Date | Friday, August 14, 2009 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | New Democratic Party Leader Jack Layton won't reveal whether he favours a name change for his party.
"I'm not offering an opinion on it because I want the delegates to feel free to share their views — the pros and cons," Layton told CBC News on Friday at the start of the party's three-day convention in Halifax.
"If I were to indicate which answer I prefer, there might be some people who then wouldn't make up their own mind independently."
Debate on a motion put forward by five riding associations that suggests the party drop "new" from its name and become the Democratic Party began on Friday morning.
The about 1,300 delegates attending the convention are expected to vote on the proposed change on Sunday and will either move to adopt the abbreviated moniker right away, reject it or appoint a task force to study the name change.
The NDP's roots go back to the early 1930s, when a coalition of western socialists formed the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. The CCF changed its name to the New Party in 1960 and then to the New Democratic Party the following year. |
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