Popular Democratic Party (Canada)

The Popular Democratic Party or PDP was a minor Canadian social democratic and populist political party. It was formed in 2003 but did not register as a political party with Elections Canada, the government agency that oversees elections.

The PDP proposed decentralisation and community involvement in the political process through the creation of "community councils" to which any elected PDP representative would relinquish all decision making power. The party was anti-war, opposed globalisation, was environmentalist, and supported full employment.

The party ran one candidate, Daniel Knezetic (a University of Toronto student), in the 2004 federal election in the Toronto riding of Trinity-Spadina. He won 89 votes or 0.17% of the total, placing last in a field of eight candidates.

The party's website was replaced by a page indicating that the party is not dead, but has entered "a lull", and is going in a "new direction". Since the 2006 election campaign, the page has ceased to exist.

ee also

* List of Canadian political parties

External links

* [http://www.populardemocracy.ca/ Popular Democracy]
* [http://www.cbc.ca/canadavotes/riding/202/ CBC - News on 2004 vote in Canada]