National Party of Canada
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National Party of Canada
Parti national du Canada |
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| Former federal party | |
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| Leader | Paul Reid |
| President | William Stephenson |
| Founded | 1993 |
| Dissolved | 1997 |
| Ideology |
Canadian nationalism Progressivism Anti-privatization |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| Colours | teal |
The National Party of Canada was a short-lived Canadian political party that contested the 1993 federal election. The party is not related to the earlier unrelated National Party that was founded in 1979.
Founded and led by Edmonton publisher Mel Hurtig (best known as publisher of The Canadian Encyclopedia), the National Party was created in 1992 to oppose the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, an increase in continentalism, and the privatization policies of the Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney. The party ran in the 1993 election on a platform of economic nationalism, lowering the value of the Canadian dollar relative to the American to encourage exports, and social responsibility.
An important platform in the National Party's campaign was the idea that electoral campaigns should be funded by individual Canadians each contributing a small amount each year, thus taking away what the National Party considered was the undue influence of large, multinational corporations funding political campaigns.
While the election was successful for two other new parties, the Bloc Québécois and the Reform Party, the National Party failed to win a seat.
The party nominated 171 candidates who won a total of 189,778 votes (1.40% of the popular votes, or 2.34% of the votes in those 171 ridings). None were elected, although Hurtig won 12.8% of the votes in his riding, Edmonton Northwest. The other top nine candidates:
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