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I’m with Mr.Broadbent on this one. Forget about changing the name. Spend the time and the effort to reach more Canadians with the NDP’s message. Let us focus on getting Harper out of power and a NDP/Liberal coalition in. The conservatives actively destroy Canada’s social programs, while the Liberals tend to do it piecemeal and quietly. We need to reestablish the idea that the government works for the People of Canada as a opposed to the just the corporate elite of Canada.
Surprisingly I found this on the global website. The full article is behind the link.
Ed Broadbent fires up NDP convention
Richard Foot, Canwest News Service: Friday, August 14, 2009
Former NDP Leader Ed Broadbent in a file picture.
Photo Credit: Brent Foster, Windsor Star
HALIFAX — Twenty years after he left the helm of the federal NDP, a greyer, more stooped, but no less feisty Ed Broadbent was back in front of his party on Friday, unleashing an angry attack on the Liberals and Conservatives and blaming them squarely for the current recession.
In an opening speech at the NDP’s national convention in Halifax, Broadbent said “the disastrous consequences” of two decades of budget cutting, tax cutting and of slashing social programs in Ottawa — accompanied by similar policies in other western countries — led directly to “last fall’s economic crisis.”
He also said Canadians should not delude themselves in perceiving a difference between the economic stewardship of recent Liberal or Conservative governments.
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