NDP name change?

[MaxQue]

Do far-right/nationalist parties have claim to using "Canada" in their name like they do to using "America" in the United States?

Nobody cares about that here and nationalist parties are about leaving the Canada.

[MaxQue]

Actually, both the Liberals and Conservatives have the word "Canada" in their official name, as do the Greens; among major parties, only the NDP and the Bloc don't.

I'm a little puzzled by the claims that there are no nationalist or far-right parties in Canada - perhaps nothing quite in the neo-Nazi sense, but surely Christian Heritage and the Western Block Party are far right. The Canadian Action Party, meanwhile, is as nationalist as they come, even if it's a little hard to tell whether they're far right or far left.

Canadian Action Party is to left of the NDP. Far left.

[MaxQue]

There's actually a much more substantive issue than the name coming up at the convention, which is a proposal to split the federal and provincial wings like the other parties do. Right now the only way to join the federal NDP (unless you live in Quebec) is to become a member of your provincial party (and you can't be a member of the provincial party without also joining the federal one). The financing is also kind of confused, with the provincial parties giving a bunch of money to the federal one from their membership fees.

It might cause a bit of confusion initially for members who are used to just renewing one membership, but it's probably better in the long run to have the federal party independently financed. There's also a basic freedom-of-association issue for those who support one level of NDP but not the other.

I will oppose this. It's bad enough we don't have a party in Quebec anymore.

Each time you had an NDP branch in Quebec, you expelled it because the branch was for Quebec independance. Almost all leftists are for Quebec independance. I'm probably an exception.