NDP RENEWAL - NDP stalwarts undertake a party renewal proc

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NDP RENEWAL - NDP stalwarts undertake a party renewal process

by Karl Nerenberg - September 26, 2025

EXCERPT: "When the NDP was devastated in 1958 and 1993, the party reconnected with the grassroots and renewed itself. Now, after losing official party status in April 2025, some New Democrats are getting a similar process going.

In the wake of the New Democrats’ more-than-disappointing result in the last federal election two former NDP MPs have launched a renewal process for the party.

On Thursday, September 25, Peter Julian, who represented a Burnaby B.C. riding for two decades, and Matthew Green, who was MP for Hamilton Centre for nearly six years, joined forces with B.C. party activist Doris Mah to announce the initiative in Ottawa.

The two former MPs are well aware there is a leadership race under way.

They say their process will engage the grassroots and will complement the leadership campaigns.

Their party renewal exercise will also work cooperatively with a more narrowly-focused effort the NDP central office entrusted, last July, to lawyer and former candidate Emily Taman: To look into what went wrong in the last campaign.

Green, Julian and Mah expect their renewal effort to culminate at the Winnipeg convention which will name the new leader, in March 2026. . . . . "


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