Dominic Cardy
| Dominic Cardy | |
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| Leader of the New Brunswick New Democratic Party | |
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In office March 2, 2011 – January 1, 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Jesse Travis (interim) |
| Succeeded by | Rosaire L'Italien (interim) |
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| Born |
July 25, 1970 Oxford, United Kingdom |
| Political party | Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick (2017-present) |
| Other political affiliations |
Conservative Party of Canada (2017-present) New Brunswick NDP (1984–2017) Nova Scotia NDP (late 1990s) New Democratic Party of Canada (1984-2017) |
| Occupation | foreign policy analyst, political strategist and organizer |
Dominic Cardy (born July 25, 1970) is a Canadian politician and is chief of staff of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick caucus. He was previously leader of the New Brunswick New Democratic Party from 2011 until January 1, 2017.
Born in the United Kingdom, Cardy moved to Fredericton, New Brunswick with his family when he was a child. He attended Dalhousie University and graduated with a political science degree.
Cardy worked for the Department of Foreign Affairs in 2000 on projects to increase public support for the banning of land mines and for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) between 2001 and 2008. He served as a senior staff member and then country director for NDI in Nepal, Bangladesh and Cambodia.
While a university student at Nova Scotia, Cardy was elected President of the Nova Scotia NDP's youth wing. He then worked as a party campaigner, political assistant to an NDP MP in Cape Breton, and managed several campaigns at the municipal and federal level.
In 2000, Cardy co-founded NDProgress, a pressure group within the NDP that advocated the modernization of the party's governance structures. In writing about the debate within the NDP prior to its 2001 convention between the New Politics Initiative and those such as NDProgress, Cardy wrote "Some want to see the NDP recreated as a mass party based on the ideas of the traditional left, but infused with the energy of the new social movements and the anti-globalization activists. And there are those pushing from another direction, taking inspiration from the European socialists. If I had my choice I would fall firmly into this camp, those who want the party to follow the path laid by social democrats like Gary Doer, Tony Blair and Gerhard Schröder."
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